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by Zig Software Foundation
Who uses, recommends or left Zig, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
1 person and 2 projects
Zig made Bun possible. I would never have been able to build this much in 1 year if it wasn't for Zig.
Jarred Sumner on Zig, the language Bun was built in, in the post announcing the port to Rust
2026-07-08·bun.sh ↗
Zig is exceptional software: ambitious, practical, independent, and unusually serious about quality. Ghostty exists in large part because Zig made it possible for me to build the kind of software I wanted to build. This is why I support Zig.
Announcing a second family pledge of $400,000 to the Zig Software Foundation, and explaining why he backs the project despite disagreeing with its no-LLM policy.
2026-06-21·mitchellh.com ↗
Zig has been an absolute joy to work with. I have fun writing Zig every single day and that fun hasn't diminished a bit over two years. The build system is fantastic, the community is amazing, and the core maintainers are brilliant.
Mitchell Hashimoto (Ghostty's creator) reflecting on Ghostty's tech stack at 1.0
2024-12-26·mitchellh.com ↗
Our Zig codebase had one leak and one undefined memory access. That was really surprising to me (in a good way).
Ghostty's GTK rewrite and what Valgrind found in its Zig codebase
2025-08-14·mitchellh.com ↗
The GUIs interface with a shared core written in Zig that we call "libghostty". For those unfamiliar with Zig, it is a systems programming language that compiles to native machine code.
Ghostty's own About page: how it is built (undated page)
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