Community

The Zig community is decentralized. Anyone is free to start and maintain their own space for the community to gather, and edit this wiki page to add a link. There is no concept of "official" or "unofficial", however, each gathering place has its own moderators and rules.

When adding a new community, please append it at the end of the existing list as a form of courtesy.

See the Compiler development section (near the end of this page) for communities dedicated to Zig compiler development collaboration.

General discussion

IRC

• #zig on irc.libera.chat
  • Moderators:
    • Andrew Kelley
    • Isaac Freund
  • Rules:
    • Treat each other with kindness and respect.
    • No discussion of things that are both controversial and off-topic.
    • Be constructive.
  • Web App
  • New Libera.chat Logs, experimental
  • Old Freenode Logs

Discord (English)

• Zig Programming Language Discord
  • Moderators: Felix Queißner, InKryption, Loris Cro, Agni, Lee Cannon, Robin Voetter, Matt Knight
  • Rules:
    • See #info upon joining
    • Follow Discord's Community Guidelines
• Zig Embedded Group
  • Moderators: mattnite, MasterQ32
  • Rules:
    • Be kind and respectful,
    • Follow Discord's Community Guidelines
• cod1r's Zig discord
  • Moderators: cod1r, haze
  • Rules:
    • Be kind and respectful
    • Follow Discord's Community Guidelines

Discord (International)

• Zig-JP(Japanese)

  • Moderators: aiotter
  • Rules: follows Zig Programming Language Discord's rule

• Zig-KR(Korean)

  • Moderators: Pribess
  • Rules: follows Zig Programming Language Discord's rule

• Zig-AR(عربي)

  • Moderators: Hasan Yousef
  • Rules: follows Zig Programming Language Discord's rule

Tencent QQ

• Expert Zig(Chinese): 930564004

Telegram

• Zig Telegram (English)
  • Owner: painhardcore
• Zig Telegram (Español)
  • Owner: Samuel Bonilla
• Zig 中文社区 (Chinese)
  • Owner: LemonHX
• Zig Programming Language Telegram (Russian-speaking)
  • Admin: BratishkaErik
• Zig Telegram (Portuguese)
  • Owner: Matheus C. França
• Zig Telegram (Persian)
  • Owner: Mahdi Sharifi
• Zig Telegram (Uzbek)
  • Owner: yuri
• Zig Telegram (عربي)
  • Owner: Hasan Yousef
• Zig Telegram (Italian)
  • Owner: kristoff
• Zig India
  • Owner: Tushar Sadhwani
• Zig Lang Stickers
• Zig Language Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Owner: Hadi Hidayat (Robi) Hammurabi

Matrix / Element

• #zig:matrix.org
  • Moderators: Josias, Simon A. Nielsen Knights
  • Rules: Same as IRC

Zulip

• zig-lang
  • Admin: Aria Elfren (Zulip username)
  • Rules: Same as IRC (for now)

Revolt

• Zig Programming Language
  • Moderators: Ali Chraghi

Slack

• ziglang.slack.com
  • Moderator: Loong
  • Rules: Same as IRC
• Zig programming language
  • Moderator: Annie Herrmann
  • Rules: Same as IRC

Shpong

• Zig programming language
  • Rules: Same as IRC

WhatsApp

• Zig Nigeria
  • Moderator: Ayodeji Adeoti
  • Rules: Same as IRC

Email List

• ~andrewrk/[email protected]

  • Moderator: Andrew Kelley
    • (we need sr.ht to grow more features before other moderators can be added)
  • Rules: Same as IRC

• [email protected]

  • Moderator: Matheus C. França
  • Rules: Same as IRC

Forums

• Ziggit

  • Moderators:
    • @jecolon
    • Zach Raineri
    • @andrewCodeDev
  • Terms of Service
  • FAQ

• Zig 中文社区论坛

• ZigQuestions

Stack Overflow

Questions tagged [zig]

Moderators and rules here are governed by Stack Overflow.

Lemmy

• lemm.ee
  • Moderators:
    • @cryptocode
  • Scope and rules

Merchandise

• Teespring Store run by @wilsonk
  • Store above includes new Logos, Zero, Ziggy and Zigfast designs
  • OLD Designs (https://teespring.com/stores/wilsons-store-5)
  • Profits support Zig (@andrewrk: I confirm this)

Streams

SHOWTIME

The show where members of the Zig community share code and ideas.

https://zig.show/

• YouTube
• Newsletter
• Apply to Speak
• Discord
  The Zig SHOWTIME Discord server serves as a coordination tool for organizing the show, and as a place where people invested in the success of Zig can socialize and collaborate together on new projects. The main goal of this space is to create a community of creators (be it code, blogs, videos, or undefined), so that we can all make the most out of our Zig experience. Nobody is born knowing Zig so everyone is welcome to have fun in this server but, if you're unsure whether Zig is the right language for you, it's recommended you check out first other Zig communities as they might be more focused on helping newcomers to the language.

Individuals

• Andrew Kelley has a Zig Live Coding stream sometimes.
  • Twitch Channel
• Loris Cro - Showtime stuff, event-loop stuff, miscellaneous
• Benjamin Feng - GameBoy emulators, web assembly, allocators
• Meghan Denny - Zigmod package manager, web servers, and more
• KomariSpaghetti
• daurnimator
• Dan B - Custom OS in Zig and apps for it
• Spex_Guy
• Dr_Deano - Custom Kernel in Zig
• Isaac Freund - River, a Wayland compositor in Zig
• Auguste Rame - Zig + Java stuff (JNI, JVM impl in Zig), random Zig projects, Zig meme making, and more - Archived Videos, Recommended Video
• sphaerophoria - Various projects in Zig and Rust - Archived Videos

Learning resources

• zig.guide
  • Owner: Sobeston
  • GitHub: Sobeston/zig.guide
• Ziglings
• Exercism
• Dude The Builder, Codeberg.org Youtube
  • Zig in Depth - Repository
  • Zig Master - Repository
• Awesome Zig: A collection of some awesome public Zig programming language projects.
• Zig 中文教程
• Zig 简明教程
• zig-learning - A bunch of links to blog posts, articles, videos, etc for learning Zig

Blog posts

Collection of blog posts

Others

• Zig UserMap, see where the Ziguanas live! (Contribute)
• Zig 语言中文社区

Reddit

(This section written by Andrew Kelley)

I used to moderate the /r/zig subreddit. During the Reddit protests in June 2023, I decided to permanently shut down /r/zig, making it private, encouraging users to head to ziggit.dev instead.

A troll messaged Reddit admins and gained moderator access to /r/zig, re-opened the subreddit, and started doing juvenile vandalism for a few weeks, before deciding they had enough fun and abandoning the place.

Next, Jens Goldberg messaged the Reddit admins and managed to become a moderator of /r/zig. He's pretty hands-off, does not do a lot of moderation, lets the Reddit voting system handle disagreements.

While the subreddit was private, the vast majority of valuable people moved to other communities. Most of the people who remained were riff raff, willing to tolerate trolling and more interested in Reddit as a platform than Zig as a project.

Now, the Zig subreddit is a complete wasteland, and I personally advise against going there. In fact I have deleted my entire Reddit account.

I don't have the time or energy to evaluate most Zig communities so I can neither endorse nor anti-endorse them, however, the Zig subreddit is an exception.

It's an awful place and I stand by my decision to permanently close it. I am unhappy that it was reopened against my will.

X (formerly twitter)

• Zig Programming Language
  • Moderator: gdjohn4s
  • Rules: You can find them on Community Profile

Compiler development

These communities are focused on Zig compiler development collaboration.

Warning

If you're a newcomer and want help learning Zig look into general discussion communities that have a space dedicated to on boarding newcomers

Zulip

• ZSF Compiler Development
  • Moderators:
    • Andrew Kelley
  • Rules:
    • Treat each other with kindness and respect.
    • No discussion of things that are both controversial and off-topic.
    • Be constructive.