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Ask HN: Is the Zig programming language dead?

5 points by chris2860 ↗ HN
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?

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sobeston
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?

sobeston
https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/y1zuzv/is... https://www.reddit.com/r/AskProgramming/comments/y1zwan/is_t...

Assuming this is you also. There were commits to Zig less than an hour before you posted this.

chris2860
You are correct that I also asked other online communities this question.

I wouldn't say I was trying to force a narrative. I was asking out of concern. I was especially unnerved after seeing the development graph on GitHub:

https://imgur.com/M09Nkx9

Also seeing there were features that haven't been implemented for the last 6 years made me even less confident about the future of the project:

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/68

Even from this post:

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

Of all the Zig projects the author said he was going to work on:

- https://github.com/andrewrk/groovebasin/tree/zig

- https://github.com/andrewrk/genesis/tree/zig

- https://github.com/andrewrk/clashos

he never committed and did any of them.

kristoff_it
> I was asking out of concern.

Right. Thank you for just asking questions.

[dead] einarr
chris2860
Don't know what you're talking about. Could you share a link, please?

I did ask the same question to other online communities (specifically Reddit and Stack Overflow) to get an unbiased answer.

From Google's cache (enter this in the address bar):

- cache:https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/y1zuzv/is...

- cache:https://www.reddit.com/r/AskProgramming/comments/y1zwan/is_t...

I asked on Reddit from my 3-year-old account. In comparison, your account is 30 minutes old.

kristoff_it
maybe you should take a moment to consider why you have to give out google cache links, instead of linking the original post. maybe there's a reason they both got removed.
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"?