Zig Open Source Projects

Browse 261 Zig open source projects, ranked by GitHub stars. Find the most popular Zig tools and libraries.

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1-60 of 261 projects
43,261 stars

ziglang/zig

Moved to Codeberg

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Stars43,261
16,586 stars

tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle

The financial transactions database designed for mission critical safety and performance.

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Stars16,586
5,686 stars

extism/extism

The framework for building with WebAssembly (wasm). Easily & securely load wasm modules, move data, call functions, and build extensible apps.

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Stars5,686
5,026 stars

zigtools/zls

A language server for Zig supporting developers with features like autocomplete and goto definition

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Stars5,026
4,800 stars

hexops/mach

zig game engine & graphics toolkit - mirror of https://code.hexops.com/hexops/mach

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Stars4,800
4,669 stars

ratfactor/ziglings

Learn the Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs.

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Stars4,669
4,197 stars

riverwm/river

[mirror] A non-monolithic Wayland compositor

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Stars4,197
3,580 stars

PixelGuys/Cubyz

Voxel sandbox game with a large render distance, procedurally generated content and some cool graphical effects.

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Stars3,580
3,543 stars

mitchellh/libxev

libxev is a cross-platform, high-performance event loop that provides abstractions for non-blocking IO, timers, events, and more and works on Linux (io_uring or epoll), macOS (kqueue), and Wasm + WASI. Available as both a Zig and C API.

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Stars3,543
3,395 stars

zigzap/zap

blazingly fast backends in zig

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Stars3,395
2,850 stars

zig-gamedev/zig-gamedev

Dev repo for @zig-gamedev libs and sample applications

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Stars2,850
2,666 stars

capy-ui/capy

💻Build one codebase and get native UI on Windows, Linux and Web

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Stars2,666
2,588 stars

rust-cross/cargo-zigbuild

Compile Cargo project with zig as linker

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Stars2,588
2,417 stars

zigcc/awesome-zig

A collaborative list of awesome Zig libraries and resources.

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Stars2,417
2,223 stars

ZigEmbeddedGroup/microzig

MicroZig is a toolbox for building embedded applications in Zig.

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Stars2,223
1,996 stars

andrewrk/poop

Performance Optimizer Observation Platform

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Stars1,996
1,914 stars

rockorager/libvaxis

a modern tui library written in zig

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Stars1,914
1,742 stars

Vexu/arocc

A modern fully featured C compiler.

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Stars1,742
1,664 stars

C-BJ/awesome-zig

📜Zig Learning Guide & Project Lists

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Stars1,664
1,581 stars

Hejsil/zig-clap

Command line argument parsing library

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Stars1,581
1,575 stars

david-vanderson/dvui

Immediate Zig GUI for Apps and Games

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Stars1,575
1,565 stars

karlseguin/http.zig

An HTTP/1.1 server for zig

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Stars1,565
1,507 stars

buzz-language/buzz

👨‍🚀 buzz, A small/lightweight statically typed scripting language

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Stars1,507
1,506 stars

aduros/wasm4

Build retro games using WebAssembly for a fantasy console.

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Stars1,506
1,504 stars

jetzig-framework/jetzig

Jetzig is a web framework written in Zig

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Stars1,504
1,451 stars

fubark/cyber

Fast and concurrent scripting.

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Stars1,451
1,370 stars

nrdmn/awesome-zig

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Stars1,370
1,165 stars

zigcc/zig-cookbook

Simple Zig programs that demonstrate good practices to accomplish common programming tasks.

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Stars1,165
1,124 stars

marler8997/zigup

Download and manage zig compilers.

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Stars1,124
1,031 stars

tristanisham/zvm

zvm (Zig Version Manager) lets you easily install/upgrade between different versions of Zig.

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Stars1,031
936 stars

nektro/zigmod

📦 A package manager for the Zig programming language.

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Stars936
932 stars

cztomsik/graffiti

HTML/CSS engine for node.js and deno.

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Stars932
926 stars

Sobeston/zig.guide

Repo for https://zig.guide content. Get up to speed with Zig quickly.

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Stars926
885 stars

Snektron/vulkan-zig

Vulkan binding generator for Zig

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Stars885
822 stars

webui-dev/zig-webui

Use any web browser or WebView as GUI, with Zig in the backend and modern web technologies in the frontend, all in a lightweight portable library.

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Stars822
821 stars

zigimg/zigimg

Zig library for reading and writing different image formats

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Stars821
784 stars

fulcrum-so/ziggy-pydust

A toolkit for building Python extensions in Zig.

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Stars784
770 stars

zackradisic/tether

WIP high-performance code editor inspired by Doom Emacs and neovim. Comes with explosions.

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Stars770
736 stars

ZystemOS/pluto

An x86 kernel written in Zig

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Stars736
708 stars

floooh/sokol-zig

Zig bindings for the sokol headers (https://github.com/floooh/sokol)

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Stars708
697 stars

ziglang/vscode-zig

Zig language support for VSCode

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Stars697
687 stars

xyproto/orbiton

Snappy and configuration-free text editor/IDE for the terminal. Suitable for writing git commit messages, editing Markdown, config files, source code, man pages and for quick edit-format-compile cycles when programming. Has syntax highlighting, jump-to-error, rainbow parentheses, macros, cut/paste portals, LSP support and a simple gdb+dlv frontend.

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Stars687
682 stars

inkeliz/karmem

Karmem is a fast binary serialization format, faster than Google Flatbuffers and optimized for TinyGo and WASM.

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Stars682
678 stars

Mewz-project/Mewz

A unikernel designed specifically for running Wasm applications and compatible with WASI

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Stars678
657 stars

orhun/linuxwave

Generate music from the entropy of Linux 🐧🎵

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Stars657
651 stars

ethz-asl/polygon_coverage_planning

Coverage planning in general polygons with holes.

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Stars651
639 stars

MasterQ32/zig-network

A smallest-common-subset of socket functions for crossplatform networking, TCP & UDP

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Stars639
627 stars

ziglibs/zgl

Zig OpenGL Wrapper

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Stars627
613 stars

vrischmann/zig-sqlite

zig-sqlite is a small wrapper around sqlite's C API, making it easier to use with Zig.

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Stars613
608 stars

natecraddock/zf

a commandline fuzzy finder and zig module designed for filtering filepaths

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Stars608
603 stars

Vexu/bog

Small, strongly typed, embeddable language.

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Stars603
602 stars

Hejsil/mecha

A parser combinator library for Zig

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Stars602
584 stars

karlseguin/pg.zig

Native PostgreSQL driver / client for Zig

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Stars584
582 stars

mattnite/gyro

A Zig package manager with an index, build runner, and build dependencies.

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Stars582
572 stars

JakubSzark/zig-string

A String Library made for Zig

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Stars572
570 stars

ziglang/zig.vim

Vim configuration for Zig

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Stars570
562 stars

sagemathinc/cowasm

CoWasm: Collaborative WebAssembly for Servers and Browsers. Built using Zig. Supports Python with extension modules, including numpy.

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Stars562
551 stars

zackradisic/tyvm

An experimental bytecode interpreter / type-checker for type-level Typescript

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Stars551
550 stars

kprotty/zap

An asynchronous runtime with a focus on performance and resource efficiency.

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Stars550
532 stars

AndreaOrru/zen

Experimental operating system written in Zig

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Stars532
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