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Zig 0.16.0 — The Release That Turned I/O into an Interface, and the Bill It Came With
Zig 0.16.0, released on April 14, 2026, changed the standard library so that every I/O operation takes an Io instance as an argument. It takes the old Zig habit of passing an Allocator as an argument and applies the same
2026-07-16 · 23 min read #zig#systems-programming#async-io#compilerThe founder who went back to the terminal: Hashimoto on Ghostty, Zig, and open source with "no obligation"
Grounded in a recent interview, a look at why HashiCorp cofounder Mitchell Hashimoto stepped back from being a successful founder to build the terminal emulator Ghostty in Zig, a language not yet at 1.0. He admits that a
2026-07-11 · 6 min read #ghostty#zig#open-source#terminal#mitchell-hashimoto2026 Systems Languages and Package Managers - Zig, C++26, Carbon, Mojo, Swift Server, Kotlin, C# .NET 9, uv, pnpm, Bun Deep Dive
A 2026 overview of modern systems languages and package managers. Covers Zig 0.14, C++26, Carbon, Mojo 1.x, Swift on server, Kotlin/Ktor, C 13/.NET 9, plus uv, pnpm 10, Bun, Pixi, and Nix in one place.
2026-05-16 · 11 min read #systems-languages#zig#cpp26#carbon#mojoModern Zig 2026 — Zig 0.14, Andrew Kelley, Bun, TigerBeetle, Ghostty, comptime, Zon, Roc Deep Dive
Zig is still not 1.0. Version 0.14 shipped in March 2025 with compilation-speed work and a refreshed build system, while async/await remains removed pending redesign. And yet, despite the incomplete label, serious produc
2026-05-16 · 17 min read #zig#zig-0-14#andrew-kelley#zig-software-foundation#bunBun Retrospective 2026 — 1.0 GA Promises vs Reality: Runtime, Bundler, Package Manager, Test Runner, Shell (An Honest Take from the Bun 2 Era)
Bun went GA with 1.0 in September 2023. Two and a half years later, the bill is in. The Zig-based runtime, the JavaScriptCore engine, the esbuild-inspired bundler, the package manager that aimed to overtake pnpm, the Jes
2026-05-14 · 22 min read #bun#bun-2#javascript-runtime#node-js#deno