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karlseguin/pg.zig

Native PostgreSQL driver / client for Zig

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#postgresql-client #zig #zig-library #zig-package

Updated: 2026-09-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-10-18
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 14 open

601

stars

Forks: 66
Commits: 223 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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multiformats/multiformats

The main repository for discussing multiformats.

Updated: 2025-04-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-07-19
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 20 open

580

stars

Forks: 65
Commits: 61 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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JakubSzark/zig-string

A String Library made for Zig

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#library #simple #string #utf-8 #zig #zig-string

Updated: 2026-06-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-09-01
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

579

stars

Forks: 38
Commits: 167 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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freref/fancy-cat

PDF reader for terminal emulators using the Kitty image protocol

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#cli #pdf-viewer #zig #zig-package

Updated: 2026-08-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2024-11-02
History: 6 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 20 open

567

stars

Forks: 22
Commits: 184 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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meszmate/zigzag

A Terminal UI framework for Zig

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#terminal #terminal-based #terminal-ui #tui #tui-app #zig

Updated: 2026-09-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-01-31
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

567

stars

Forks: 26
Commits: 263 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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kprotty/zap

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

Stack

Zig Cargo

GitHub topics

#asynchronous #io #networking #performance #runtime #rust

Updated: 2025-01-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-02-15
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

553

stars

Forks: 21
Commits: 73 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mitchellh/zig-overlay

Nix flake for the Zig compiler.

Stack

Nix

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-08-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

551

stars

Forks: 63
Commits: 1,814 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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AndreaOrru/zen

Experimental operating system written in Zig

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#kernel #operating-system #os #zig

Updated: 2025-09-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-04
History: 6 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 1 open

535

stars

Forks: 30
Commits: 136 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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natecraddock/ziglua

Zig bindings for the Lua C API

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#binding #library #lua #lua-bindings #package #zig

Updated: 2026-09-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-06-01
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

523

stars

Forks: 73
Commits: 521 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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karlseguin/websocket.zig

A websocket implementation for zig

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#websocket #zig #zig-library #zig-package

Updated: 2026-08-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-05-28
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

522

stars

Forks: 92
Commits: 254 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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andrewrk/tetris

A simple tetris clone written in zig programming language.

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#game #zig

Updated: 2026-05-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-01-19
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

494

stars

Forks: 58
Commits: 216 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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arrufat/zignal

zero-dependency image processing library

Stack

Zig pytest pip uv

GitHub topics

#drawing #geometry #image-processing #python #svd-matrix-factorisation #wasm

Updated: 2026-09-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-04-13
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

463

stars

Forks: 13
Commits: 1,336 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

marlersoft/zigwin32

Zig bindings for Win32 generated by https://github.com/marlersoft/zigwin32gen

Stack

Zig

Updated: 2026-07-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-01-30
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 30 open

455

stars

Forks: 70
Commits: 278 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ikskuh/SDL.zig

A shallow wrapper around SDL that provides object API and error handling

Stack

GitHub topics

#gamedev #sdl #sdl2 #zig #zig-package #ziglang

Updated: 2025-11-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-12-02
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 19 open

447

stars

Forks: 86
Commits: 394 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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jzck/kernel-zig

:floppy_disk: hobby x86 kernel zig

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#kernel #x86 #zig

Updated: 2023-08-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-05-10
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 2 open

439

stars

Forks: 15
Commits: 62 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Arwalk/zig-protobuf

a protobuf 3 implementation for zig.

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#protobuf #zig #zig-package

Updated: 2026-09-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-04-30
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 22 open

435

stars

Forks: 69
Commits: 292 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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malcolmstill/zware

Zig WebAssembly Runtime Engine

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#wasm #webassembly #zig #zig-package #ziglang

Updated: 2026-06-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-02-01
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 18 open

413

stars

Forks: 21
Commits: 440 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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TheAlgorithms/Zig

Collection of Algorithms implemented in Zig.

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#algorithms #data-structures #dynamic-programming #interview-questions #learning #math

Updated: 2026-08-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-12-27
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

413

stars

Forks: 62
Commits: 50 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Syndica/sig

a Solana validator client implementation written in Zig

Stack

Zig React Cargo npm PEP 517

Updated: 2026-07-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-05-20
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 93 open

408

stars

Forks: 72
Commits: 2,325 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

wendigojaeger/ZigGBA

Work in progress SDK for creating Game Boy Advance games using Zig programming language.

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#gba #sdk #zig

Updated: 2025-07-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-12-06
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

387

stars

Forks: 19
Commits: 121 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Jack-Ji/jok

A minimal 2d/3d game framework for @ziglang.

Archived

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#gamedev #linux #macos #sdl2 #webassembly #windows

Updated: 2026-07-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-05-13
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

381

stars

Forks: 16
Commits: 1,278 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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fubark/cosmic

A platform for computing and creating applications.

Stack

Zig Cargo

GitHub topics

#3d #graphics #opengl #ui #vulkan #wasm

Updated: 2023-03-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-11-09
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

361

stars

Forks: 15
Commits: 1,077 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sam701/zig-cli

A simple package for building command line apps in Zig

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#argument-parser #cli #command-line #zig-package #ziglang

Updated: 2026-08-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-02-07
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 8 open

358

stars

Forks: 35
Commits: 186 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ziex-dev/ziex

Full-stack web framework for Zig. HTML syntax within Zig code, just like JSX but for Zig!

Stack

Zig Actix Web Axum Next.js React Bun Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#client-side-rendering #frontend #full-stack #full-stack-web-framework #html #jsx

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-10-28
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 29 open

355

stars

Forks: 24
Commits: 1,567 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mitchellh/zig-objc

Objective-C runtime bindings for Zig (Zig calling ObjC).

Stack

Zig

Updated: 2026-04-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-01-02
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

354

stars

Forks: 50
Commits: 101 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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kubkon/bold

bold: the bold linker

Archived

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#linker #zig #zig-package

Updated: 2026-01-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-01-23
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

340

stars

Forks: 26
Commits: 2,190 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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xcaeser/zli

📟 Build ergonomic, high-performance command-line tools (CLI) with zig.

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#cli #zig #zig-package

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-05-14
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1 open

337

stars

Forks: 14
Commits: 214 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

kooparse/zalgebra

Linear algebra library for games and real-time graphics.

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#gamedev #graphics #linear-algebra #mat4 #math #matrix

Updated: 2026-07-28
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-10-07
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

331

stars

Forks: 47
Commits: 260 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

allyourcodebase/ffmpeg

FFmpeg Zig package

Stack

GitHub topics

#ffmpeg #zig #zig-package

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2000-12-20
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 10 open

325

stars

Forks: 58
Commits: 121,387 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ziglibs/known-folders

Provides access to well-known folders across several operating systems

Stack

Zig

GitHub topics

#zig #zig-package

Updated: 2026-07-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-05-18
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

323

stars

Forks: 26
Commits: 120 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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