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    ghostty-org/ghostty★ 61,291 · ⑂ 3,475

    👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

  2. 2
    ziglang/zig★ 43,302 · ⑂ 3,204

    Moved to Codeberg

    • compiler
    • zig
    • language
  3. 3
    lightpanda-io/browser★ 35,437 · ⑂ 1,683

    Lightpanda: the headless browser designed for AI and automation

    • browser
    • cdp
    • headless
    • playwright
    • puppeteer
    • zig
  4. 4
    tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle★ 17,041 · ⑂ 900

    The financial transactions database designed for mission critical safety and performance.

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    nullclaw/nullclaw★ 8,100 · ⑂ 944

    Fastest, smallest, and fully autonomous AI assistant infrastructure written in Zig

    • ai
    • assistant
    • personal
    • zig
  7. 6
    vercel-labs/native★ 7,689 · ⑂ 314

    Toolkit for building native desktop apps

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    fairyglade/ly★ 7,595 · ⑂ 350

    A lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD (mirror of https://codeberg.org/fairyglade/ly).

    • linux
    • login
    • pam
    • tui
    • zig
  9. 8
    roc-lang/roc★ 6,061 · ⑂ 418

    A fast, friendly, functional language.

    • functional-language
    • functional-programming
    • language
    • roc-lang
  10. 9
    zigtools/zls★ 5,135 · ⑂ 447

    A language server for Zig supporting developers with features like autocomplete and goto definition

    • zig
    • zls
    • language-server
    • lsp
    • lsp-server
  11. 10
    NilsIrl/dockerc★ 4,918 · ⑂ 109

    container image to single executable compiler

    • containers
    • docker
    • oci
    • oci-image
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    hexops/mach★ 4,841 · ⑂ 212

    zig game engine & graphics toolkit - mirror of https://code.hexops.com/hexops/mach

    • game-engine
    • gamedev
    • zig
    • ziglang
    • open-source
    • composable
  14. 12
    riverwm/river★ 4,285 · ⑂ 169

    [mirror] A non-monolithic Wayland compositor

    • wayland
    • wayland-compositor
    • window-manager
    • zig
    • wlroots
  15. 13
    zml/zml★ 4,067 · ⑂ 184

    Any model. Any hardware. Zero compromise. Built with @ziglang / @openxla / MLIR / @bazelbuild

    • ai
    • bazel
    • hpc
    • inference
    • xla
    • zig
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    PixelGuys/Cubyz★ 3,665 · ⑂ 241

    Voxel sandbox game with a large render distance, procedurally generated content and some cool graphical effects.

    • 3d-game
    • voxel-game
    • game
    • voxel
    • cubyz
    • sandbox
  17. 15
    mitchellh/libxev★ 3,582 · ⑂ 191

    libxev is a cross-platform, high-performance event loop that provides abstractions for non-blocking IO, timers, events, and more and works on Linux (io_uring or epoll), macOS (kqueue), and Wasm + WASI. Available as both a Zig and C API.

    • async
    • c
    • epoll
    • io-uring
    • kqueue
    • wasi
  18. 16
    jstrieb/github-stats★ 3,553 · ⑂ 804

    Better GitHub statistics images for your profile, with stats from private repos too

    • github-stats
    • statistics
    • profile
    • visualizations
    • github
    • github-api
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    dmtrKovalenko/odiff★ 3,201 · ⑂ 115

    A very fast SIMD-first image comparison library (with nodejs API)

    • visual
    • diff
    • snapshot
    • image-comparison
    • testing-tool
    • pixel-perfect
  21. 18
    vercel-labs/fx★ 3,065 · ⑂ 352

    Unix like coding agent

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    zig-gamedev/zig-gamedev★ 2,863 · ⑂ 191

    Dev repo for @zig-gamedev libs and sample applications

    • gamedev
    • zig
    • libraries
    • demos
    • graphics
    • directx12
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