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#Zig

15 articles on Zig — news, releases, guides and analysis from the SourceFeed engine.

Article 1w ago 0

Solo Browser Passes Acid3 — Now Show the Code

cwbrowser claims a from-scratch Zig engine scoring 100/100, but in 2026 Acid3 is the easy part.

Mariana Souza

Zig's 50ms Rebuilds Rest on Patching Binaries in Place

A core-team internals writeup shows the hard part was never caching — it was incremental linking.

Article · 2w ago0

Bun's Rust Rewrite Took 11 Days. Shipping It Is Taking Months

Eleven weeks without a release and a 2,400-PR bot backlog show where AI-speed development really bottlenecks.

Article · 2w ago2

Cruller Picks Up the Zig Runtime Bun Left Behind

A solo fork of Bun's last Zig release tests who inherits big codebases in the age of AI rewrites.

Article · 2w ago2

Buz Forks Bun to Prove Zig Was Fast Enough

A post-Rust-rewrite fork hits sub-second incremental builds — but speed was never the official reason Bun left Zig.

Article · 2w ago0

Buz Revives Zig-Era Bun With Sub-Second Rebuilds

A one-person fork nobody should run is still the best evidence yet that Zig's compiler turned a corner.

Article · 2w ago1

Bun's Claude Port Is a Values Fight

Eleven days and a million lines of Rust reopened the real question: what counts as safe enough for a JS runtime.

Article · 4w ago1

Andrew Kelley Calls Out Anthropic's AI Rewrite Hype

Bun's AI-driven jump from Zig to Rust turned into a flashpoint over who gets to define what AI coding agents actually proved.

News · 1mo ago2

Write Your First CLI Tool in Zig and Cross-Compile It for Linux, macOS, and Windows

Build a small word-count utility in Zig and ship static, single-file binaries for three operating systems from one machine, no Docker or VMs required.

Tutorial · 1mo ago0

Why Mitchell Hashimoto Chose Zig to Rebuild the Terminal

An architectural analysis of Ghostty, systems-level language trade-offs, and the push for structured terminal protocols.

Article · 1mo ago0

Bun's AI Rewrite Proves the Test Suite Is the Moat

An agent ported a production JS runtime from Zig to Rust in six days, and nobody read the million-line diff.

Article · 1mo ago2

Bun's Rust Rewrite Killed the One-Way Door

An LLM ported a million lines from Zig to Rust in under two weeks. The conformance suite mattered more than the model.

Article · 1mo ago3

Zig Decouples Package Management From the Compiler Binary

Moving package fetching and crypto to the build runner slims the compiler and unblocks language server integration.

Article · 1mo ago0

Zig Redefines BitCast Semantics to Fix LLVM Backend Bugs

Decoupling bitwise casts from memory layouts eliminates compiler bugs and unlocks better LLVM optimization.

Article · 1mo ago0

Zig by Example Gives Systems Programmers a Practical On-Ramp

Modeled after Go by Example, this annotated-code resource walks developers through Zig 0.14 from Hello World to C interop — no hand-holding, no fluff.

Article · 2mos ago0