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Community Projects

These can be projects written in Zig, or projects that support Zig. Feel free to add yours (or someone else's) here!

  • Alka - Mid-level 2D engine written in Zig.
  • alzette - Implementation of the Alzette box and the CRAX block cipher in Zig.
  • Aro - A C compiler written in Zig.
  • BamOS - An operating system kernel written in Zig.
  • benice - Apply CPU and I/O policies on system processes.
  • Black Shades - A psychic bodyguard FPS game.
  • buzz - A small/lightweight statically typed scripting language
  • capy - Cross-platform library for easily making true native GUIs in Zig
  • charm - A tiny, self-contained cryptography library, implementing authenticated encryption and keyed hashing.
  • cova - Commands, Options, Values, Arguments. A simple yet robust cross-platform command line argument parsing library for Zig.
  • cZPeg - Compile-time parser generator in the spirit of LPeg, with regex support.
  • didot - High-level 3D engine written in Zig.
  • dvui - Immediate Zig GUI for Apps and Games.
  • embed-dir - A small Zig library for embedding directory trees with @embedFile.
  • flags - An easy, cross-platfrom command line argument parsing library.
  • flow - Flow Control: a programmer's text editor
  • Fundude - Gameboy emulator running in wasm.
  • hacky-zig-repl - A small REPL-like program for Zig.
  • Kiesel - A JavaScript engine written in Zig
  • zig-learning - A bunch of links to blog posts, articles, videos, etc for learning Zig
  • Lappland - A dead simple diceware generator.
  • Liacomfa_N - "Lion Algoritmo de Compresion en Fase | Lion Phase Compression Algorithm" Algorithm for compression with a reduction of 70% to 80% and integrating Python
  • libffi - libffi with a Zig build script.
  • levee - Statusbar for the river wayland compositor.
  • LoLa - Script language written in pure Zig.
  • Mach engine - Game engine & graphics toolkit for the future.
  • Matrix Utils - Matrix manipulation and utility library.
  • Mime Support MIME (HTTP Media Types) parse in Zig.
  • Mini Pixel - A tiny pixel art editor.
  • nanovg-zig - Rewrite of NanoVG in Zig.
  • ncdu - NCurses Disk Usage.
  • oxid - arcade-style game where you fight waves of monsters in a fixed-screen maze.
  • pluto - An x86 kernel, with plans to port it to x86_64, arm and aarch64.
  • PrismJS - JavaScript based syntax highlighting for web pages supports Zig.
  • QML-zig - QML bindings for the Zig programming language.
  • river - A dynamic wayland compositor.
  • scc - code line and complexity counter which has Zig support.
  • scritcher - Glitch art scripting language.
  • SDL Template - A bare bones game project template with SDL configured and ready to go.
  • setup-zig - Set up a specific version of Zig environment on GitHub Actions.
  • Sig - A Solana validator client implementation written in Zig
  • sudokuinzig - A basic sudoku solver.
  • tinyfx - Mid-level OpenGL rendering library in C with Zig wrapper.
  • TigerBeetle - A purpose built accounting database for high throughput, safety and durability.
  • TinyVG - A tiny vector graphics format. SDK and renderer is implemented in Zig.
  • TM35-Metronome - Tools for modifying and randomizing Pokémon games.
  • tofurkey - a tool for distributed sync of Linux TCP Fastopen key rotations
  • Tzigame - A collection of libraries for video game development in Zig.
  • uwm - X11 Tiling window manager.
  • vkwayland - Reference application for Vulkan & Wayland.
  • wazm - wasm interpreter.
  • yazap - Command line argument parser for zig which supports flags, subcommand and nested subcommands out of the box.
  • zalgebra - Linear algebra library for games and computer graphics.
  • zenith - Minimal text editor with familiar key bindings
  • zerve - Simple framework for writing web services and web apps.
  • zf - commandline fuzzy finder that prioritizes matches on filenames.
  • zig-args - Alternative command line parser, uses struct as argument template.
  • zig-bench - A simple benchmarking library.
  • zig-clap - A library for parsing command line arguments.
  • zig-sdk - An MSBuild SDK for building Zig, C, and C++ projects using the Zig compiler.
  • ziget - Zig library/tool to request network assets (curl/wget in Zig).
  • ZigGBA - Work in Progress SDK to write Game Boy Advance in Zig.
  • Ziggy Pydust - A framework for writing and packaging native Python extension modules written in Zig.
  • zigimg - Library to read (and soon write) image files.
  • zigmod - A Zig package manager.
  • zigup - Download and manage zig compilers.
  • zigwin32 - Complete autogenerated bindings for Win32.
  • zinc - Zinc is a framework written in pure Zig.
  • zioom - A handy cd helper.
  • zls - A powerful language server for Zig, written in Zig.
  • ztags - Generate tags files for Zig source code.
  • zyg - Pathtracer written in Zig.
  • zzz - A simple human readable data format.
  • zigcat - A Lightweight HTTP Web Server

If a project in the above list has been abandoned for over 6 months, you are welcome to edit this wiki and delete it from this list.

You can also check out awesome-zig, another similar list of Zig projects.