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State of the (Tagged) Union Address by Andrew Kelley

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  • Presented by Andrew Kelley, creator of Zig

Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Programming languagesSystems programmingZigLanguage design and type systemsCompilers and interpreters

Andrew Kelley discusses the recent advancements, toolchain improvements, and the long-term roadmap for the Zig programming language.

Andrew Kelley on what's cooking in Zig land! From a technology and toolchain perspective, a review of some of the recent major advancements, tech demos of what's very close to being finished, and talk about the roadmap of things to come over the next several years. Plus the ZSF organization, talk about the next 10 years, and why1.0 isn't tagged yet. Introduction Doing More With Less Zig Is Bigger Than (Me); Small Team, Big Dream "Dependency Zero" 1.0 Roadmap Conclusion and Sources Talk from Systems Distributed '26: systemsdistributed.com

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What people say. Highly recommended as an insightful update on the progress, philosophy, and future roadmap of Zig.

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u/Greedy_Fault_7913in r/Zig • Recommends

Well this explains everything. The zig project progression always seemed odd their wasn’t any basic project management and people involved seemed overly touchy to any criticism. Well they don’t have any PM’ing “you can bill to any thing that adds to zig directory or indirectly “ there is no ticket assignment. So there is a group of talented developers who pick there passion projects and just work on that . Very interesting style it’s like google’s 80/20 method but instead of 20% of your time spent on your side projects it’s more like 100%. So zig could get TempleOS support before the new anytype removal PR. Everything is just vibes. Who is supposed to do the work that no one really wants t…
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u/raymyersin r/Zig • Mentions

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It seems like you're interested in an update on the Zig roadmap and path to 1.0. A few weeks ago I saw Andrew Kelley's talk on that at Systems Distributed conference in Boston. Looks like it comes out at the end of the month. [video In the meantime if anyone else wants to comment resources feel free.
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