Release notes are up!
I wish it went without saying, but these notes are completely written by hand.
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Lead developer & president of Zig Software Foundation.
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Zig 0.16.0 is tagged. Release notes are just about completed and will be published in about 20 hours when the tarballs finish building.
As it turns out, it takes a while to build LLVM 27 times on one computer! That's how many different targets we provide compiler binaries for now - all cross compiled from one host.
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Lead developer & president of Zig Software Foundation.
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WARNING: Your yt-dlp version (2025.08.11) is older than 90 days!
still works tho! looks like el goog lost the battle 💪
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Andrew Kelley
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Lead developer & president of Zig Software Foundation.
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Lead developer & president of Zig Software Foundation.
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Apr 06, 2026
@mitchellh I wonder if this protocol is suitable for having some kind of logging utility that displays a live updating bar graph or line graph or something like that
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Andrew Kelley
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Mar 18, 2026
@indutny go for it, I don't even need attribution
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Mar 18, 2026
@indutny there has been so much thought and care poured into node.js over the years... to dilute it feels like spray painting some shitty graffiti on top of a beautiful mural
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Lead developer & president of Zig Software Foundation.
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Andrew Kelley
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Lead developer & president of Zig Software Foundation.
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Mar 18, 2026
@indutny good luck. is signal built using node.js?
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Andrew Kelley
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Lead developer & president of Zig Software Foundation.
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Mar 18, 2026
@indutny I left my comment on the HN article just now:
I used Node.js extensively for about a decade, both professionally and as a hobby. I don’t buy the problem statement.
These arguments don’t even make sense, they look LLM generated. I can’t even formulate a disagreement against this nonsense.
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Lead developer & president of Zig Software Foundation.
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Andrew Kelley
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Mar 01, 2026
@davidrevoy a perfect depiction of how it feels to snowboard
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Jan 02, 2026
we've built our global economy on the premise that software has a certain bar of quality, which as it turns out was based only on the goodwill of early enthusiast programmers.
now that the market has caught up and erased the negotiation power software engineers once enjoyed, the world is careening head first into a harsh reality of bug-ridden, adversarial software at odds with everyday life.
free software is still our north star. it's more important than ever.
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Nov 27, 2025
In this modern era of acquisitions, weak antitrust regulations, and platform capitalism leading to extreme concentrations of wealth, non-profits remain a bastion defending what remains of the commons.
https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/
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