HACKER Q&A
📣 chris2860

Is the Zig programming language dead?


I noticed that development of the Zig programming language has come to a complete stop since this summer:

https://imgur.com/M09Nkx9

Also half the things listed in the roadmap from 2018:

https://andrewkelley.me/post/full-time-zig.html

haven't been implemented yet.

And there haven't been financial reports for the Zig Software Foundation for the last 9 months:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14_ljFHGFXY5NhBhlfjgkO0RZHqeVv04fAmCxw3ZusYc

Does anyone know if the project has been abandoned?


  👤 sobeston Accepted Answer ✓
I actually saw multiple people in the Zig core team (and others) actively working on the Zig compiler in person this weekend! Development may have slowed in the last 2 weeks or so because of the SYCL conference; given the turnout I can assure you that there is no decline in people working with or on Zig long-term. If you look at the commits, issues, or the stage 2 meetings (normally held every thursday in the discord), you would also see that the project isn't on the decline. You're correct that the financial reports of the ZSF aren't up to date - these are updated manually so you can expect some delay.

I'm assuming you're the same person that made multiple new stack overflow accounts recently to ask (and answer, on a different account) this question here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74040564/is-the-zig-prog... (since removed by moderators).

My question to you is: Why are you trying to force this false narrative?


👤 idiosk
You could’ve found out in 5 seconds if you had looked at https://github.com/ziglang/zig but instead you decided to make this useless post

👤 rurban
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/commits/master daily commits, certainly not dead

👤 cabirum
Doesn't look dead for me.

A bunch of things not updated due to resource shortage, methinks.

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/graphs/contributors


👤 Existenceblinks
This is only my assumption but your profile is quite suspicious. Quite a new account. Asked for financial report (looks fine to me) but combined with this and a couple reddit posts. Hm..

👤 wyldfire
Is this a sock puppet from the guy who forked zig as "zen"?