What's goin on here chat? It's over I tell you! You guys getting replaced by AI, I got replaced by a kitten!

Which programming languages are they? White calico is a feisty female with a blackhole stomach (non-stop eating). Orange is super playful male and runs around full of energy. They both collapsed on manual memory management xD

For those missed the livestream. Lots of cool improvements, expect 0.15 release in August, targeting to beat LLVM both in compile time AND machine code quality, flexible / custom async-await, in-house fuzzing.

Async IO demo in Zigtoberfest '25 !! 🤯 Looks like in 2026 we'll get true async!

Kristoff is talking about and demoing the async IO in his Twitch livestream. Watch kristoff_it with me on Twitch! twitch.tv/kristoff_it?sr…

wrote 'zfind' just for fun, turns out it's quite faster compared to the original 'find'. I haven't even implemented async via io_uring. should I push ahead? planning to make zgrep as well and maybe combine them both? or make them separate programs? hopefully all zero deps!

Make sure to check zig.show website for the specific air time!

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I don't use Claude, I use AI only sparingly. But I want to comment on how goated polyphasic sleep is. You could get 2-3 full session productivity with high energy levels (2 x 7hrs or 3 x 5hrs). I adopted this since I live in 2 worlds: finance & programming.

Sometimes I like to write vulnerable programs in different langs (C/Zig/Rust) to see if they managed to catch the vulnerabilities. Below is the error message from a modern C tool and it looks beautiful. GCC static analyzer caught 'em all at compile time.

Hi CJ van den Berg I've been using and modifying your zat program for personal use and I wonder is there a way to reduce the binary size? Currently i'm getting between 90-100MB which is way too large for a cat program. Screenshot: modded ver 1.7.1

Modified a Cat program written in Zig from CJ van den Berg (Zat). Minimized dependencies (now only uses clap+regex), added line numbering, navigation + search on textfiles. Binary size from 94MB --> reduced to 2.7 MB ~ a proper size for a simple cat program. all in Zig 0.15.1

This is crustacean cruelty!! Look at that poor fella..

There's a new book "Systems Programming with Zig" from Manning and it's using version 0.15.1 so it might help those having difficulties adopting the new WriterGate. seen first on reddit: reddit.com/r/Zig/comments…

Found this recent video from Richard Feldman (creator of Roc proglang) interviews Andrew Kelley. Key topics: *I/O Writergate. *Memory management. *Serialization & deserialization. *Antivirus ?? almost 2 hours talk 💎 💎 youtube.com/watch?v=w74rC-…