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Zig projects on GitHub

The Zig systems programming language and projects written in it.

As of , the most-starred Zig projects on GitHub are ghostty (62.3K stars), zig (43.3K stars) and browser (36.7K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 14 Zig repositories with 206.1K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was scriptc, with +96 stars in a day.

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206.1KStars in total
+250Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17

+96

scriptc

vercel-labs/scriptc · ★ 6.2K

scriptc is an experimental compiler that turns TypeScript and JavaScript into typed IR, readable C, LLVM IR, native assembly/objects, native executables, or WebAssembly modules, producing standalone binaries that do not need Node.js to run.

+50

browser

lightpanda-io/browser · ★ 36.7K

Lightpanda is a headless browser built from scratch in Zig for AI agents and automation, not a fork of Chromium or WebKit.

+35

ghostty

ghostty-org/ghostty · ★ 62.3K

Ghostty is a terminal emulator built around ending the usual trade-off: the README says other emulators force you to choose between speed, features, or native UIs, and Ghostty provides all three.

+17

TensorFold

ashhart/TensorFold · ★ 1.4K

TensorFold is an LLM inference engine that serves open-weight language models through an OpenAI-compatible API, running them on Apple Silicon via MLX or on NVIDIA GPUs via CUDA.

The all-time top

14 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · ghostty-org/ghostty

    ghostty

    Ghostty is a terminal emulator built around ending the usual trade-off: the README says other emulators force you to choose between speed, features, or native UIs, and Ghostty provides all three.

    62.3K
  2. #2 · ziglang/zig

    zig

    This is the GitHub repository of the Zig programming language and its compiler. The project has moved to Codeberg, so this repo is no longer mirrored and now serves mainly as a pointer to the new home.

    43.3K
  3. #3 · lightpanda-io/browser

    browser

    Lightpanda is a headless browser built from scratch in Zig for AI agents and automation, not a fork of Chromium or WebKit.

    36.7K
  1. 4

    tigerbeetle

    17.2Ktigerbeetle/tigerbeetle · Zig

    TigerBeetle is a financial transactions database built for mission-critical safety and performance, designed to power OLTP (online transaction processing) workloads for decades to come using debit/credit transfer primitives.

  2. 5

    electrobun

    12.9Kblackboardsh/electrobun · TypeScript

    Electrobun is a framework for building fast, tiny, cross-platform desktop apps written entirely in TypeScript, with its own bundled build tooling, runtime, and native platform layer.

  3. 6

    nullclaw

    8.1Knullclaw/nullclaw · Zig

    nullclaw is a fully autonomous AI assistant infrastructure: one small static Zig binary that you self-host and connect to your chat apps and AI providers.

  4. 7

    native

    7.8Kvercel-labs/native · Zig

    Native SDK is a toolkit for building native desktop apps: you write views in declarative .native markup and logic in plain TypeScript (or Zig), and the SDK compiles everything to native code that its own engine renders directly into real OS windows, with no browser, WebView, or JS runtime in the final binary.

  5. 8

    scriptc

    6.2Kvercel-labs/scriptc · TypeScript

    scriptc is an experimental compiler that turns TypeScript and JavaScript into typed IR, readable C, LLVM IR, native assembly/objects, native executables, or WebAssembly modules, producing standalone binaries that do not need Node.js to run.

  6. 9

    fx

    3.5Kvercel-labs/fx · Zig

    fx is a Unix-like coding agent harness and CLI written in Zig, built for research and embeddability inside larger systems, with a strong focus on minimalism and performance.

  7. 10

    x64dbg-mcp-server

    2.5Kduty1g/x64dbg-mcp-server · Zig

    x64dbg-MCP Server is a native plugin for the x64dbg debugger that exposes its full functionality over HTTP via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), letting any MCP-compatible AI assistant programmatically set breakpoints, step through code, read memory, dump registers, and more.

  8. 11

    mtproto.zig

    2.1Ksleep3r/mtproto.zig · Zig

    mtproto.zig is a tiny self-hosted MTProto proxy for Telegram that disguises your traffic as ordinary TLS 1.3 HTTPS, so censors and DPI filters can't tell it's Telegram. You run it on your own cheap VPS and share a single tg:// link with people who want their Telegram unblocked.

  9. 12

    mlx-serve

    2Kddalcu/mlx-serve · Zig

    mlx-serve is a native local inference server for Apple Silicon Macs that runs MLX and GGUF language models and exposes OpenAI-, Anthropic-, and Ollama-compatible APIs, plus generates images, video, music, speech, and 3D models, all without Python or a cloud connection.

  10. 13

    TensorFold

    1.4Kashhart/TensorFold · Zig

    TensorFold is an LLM inference engine that serves open-weight language models through an OpenAI-compatible API, running them on Apple Silicon via MLX or on NVIDIA GPUs via CUDA.

  11. 14

    turbocrypt

    129jedisct1/turbocrypt · Zig

    TurboCrypt is a fast, easy-to-use command-line tool that encrypts and decrypts files, Git repositories, and directory trees — from a single document to a whole directory of backups.

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