Zig 0.14 migration

[pluiedev]

Zig 0.14 is dropping in a few days as of time of writing (February 13th, 2025), and we should be prepared for it. List of dependencies that are 0.14 ready:

• libxev: There's a community PR: update to zig 0.14.0-dev.2952+8fa47bb90 mitchellh/libxev#139
• mach_glfw: Update to 0.14, this PR just contains the upstream changes that happened since the fork mitchellh/mach-glfw#1
• libvaxis: Has a 0.14 branch
• z2d: Has a 0.14 branch
• zig-objc: There's a community PR: make compatible with 0.14.0-dev.1951 (not backwards compatible) mitchellh/zig-objc#9
• zig-js
• ziglyph tracked in Migrate ziglyph to zg #5694
• zig-wayland: Has a 0.14 branch
• zf: Already works™
• zig-gobject: Author is committed to 0.14 support, though it is currently broken as of time of writing

[mitchellh]

mach_glfw: Upstream abandoned — looks like we need to port to 0.14 ourselves

Note we already have this forked. https://github.com/mitchellh/mach-glfw and we use that fork, so it shouldn't be too much work I hope.

[mitchellh]

zig-objc: There's a community PR: mitchellh/zig-objc#9

This PR looks pretty much good to go if it still passes once 0.14 releases. I'm the maintainer of this so that looks good.

[mitchellh]

zig-js

Our wasm builds are broken anyways, so this isn't a blocker. cc @gabydd on this one.

[gabydd]

I have changes for zig-js for 0.14 if needed. my current plan is to see if I can remove zig-js so that wasm is useable in non JavaScript environments, will see how that turns out next week when I get back working on wasm.

[gabydd]

Something that should be mentioned in the list looks like the xev pr is only for Linux so more work will be needed there

[der-teufel-programming]

mach_glfw: Upstream abandoned — looks like we need to port to 0.14 ourselves

Note we already have this forked. https://github.com/mitchellh/mach-glfw and we use that fork, so it shouldn't be too much work I hope.

Here you go, the upstream of the fork had some updates: mitchellh/mach-glfw#1

[slonik-az]

Time-pressure is slightly off :-) Andrew postponed the zig-0.14 release to March the 3-rd. https://ziglang.org/news/0.14.0-delayed/

[mitchellh]

Time-pressure is slightly off :-) Andrew postponed the zig-0.14 release to March the 3-rd. https://ziglang.org/news/0.14.0-delayed/

I want to be clear the time pressure is very off anyways. We can't really support 0.14 until the downstream package ecosystems also get 0.14 and all our dependencies are updated and we're cutting a release. So, there's quite a lot of wiggle room in there.

I'm interested in supporting it as fast as we can and getting Ghostty 1.2 on 0.14 but there isn't a lot of pressure to do so. 😄