zig 2026 roadmap
https://zig.show/episodes/41/

2025-07-02
2025-07-02T16:00:00Z
2025-07-02T12:00:00-04:00

( failed, connection issues )
https://www.youtube.com/@ZigSHOWTIME
XXX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX4qaVPVsU8

https://www.twitch.tv/kristoff_it
https://player.twitch.tv/?channel=kristoff_it&parent=zig.show

2025-07-03
2025-07-03T16:00:00Z
2025-07-03T12:00:00-04:00

Loris still having connection issues from Serengo, Italy

Andrew Kelley
**red hair**
https://www.twitch.tv/andrewrok
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2502727595
https://github.com/andrewrk/
https://gist.github.com/andrewrk/

https://ziglang.org/download/0.14.0/release-notes.html

labelled switch
`goto` removed in favor of structured control flow including labeled switch
`var state = State.state_0; while( cond_or_true ) { switch( state ) { ... state = .state_1; ... } }`
`label: switch( StateEnum.state_0 ) { ... continue :label .state_1; ... }`
continue destination can be runtime as well;
labeled switch helps branch predictor.

shoutouts to Alex for improved platform support
"Alex Rønne Petersen" - https://github.com/alexrp
newest core team member, missing welcome post, ha..
https://ziglang.org/download/
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Updating-libc

zig --Dno-lib --Dno-bin --watch -fincremental --prominent-compile-errors
`-fno-emit-bin` not ideal (?)
..
cat xyz.txt | vim -

`zig translate-c`
https://github.com/ziglang/translate-c
https://github.com/Vexu/arocc
complete
"Veikka Tuominen" - https://github.com/Vexu

dependencies to-be removed
- clang
- lld
- llvm

aarch64 jacobly0, secret project haha
-target aarch64-linux -fno-llvm -OReleaseSmall -fno-compiler-rt --test-cmd qemu-aarch
..
debug mode is good, register allocation
( me, bk ) ? https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_allocation
( me, bk ) ? https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_single-assignment_form
zig team competing with llvm
..
qemu something, zig unit testing
`zig test example.zig --test-cmd qemu-aarch64 --test-cmd-bin -target aarch64-linux`
`zig build -h`, `-fqemu` and `-fno-qemu`
> integration with system-installed qemu to execute foreign-architecture programs on linux
not default, not required

( rtfeldman in comments, very excited.. haha )
https://github.com/rtfeldman
https://github.com/roc-lang/roc
https://roc-lang.org/

async, io like allocator, manual vtable, coroutines(?)
io vtable
- async, go, await,
- cancel, cancelRequested,
- select,
- mutexLock, mutexUnlock,
- conditionWait, conditionWake,
- createFile, openFile, closeFile, pread, pwrite,
- now, sleep
+ much-more-to-come (?)
andrewrk/example.zig - "async await demo"
https://gist.github.com/andrewrk/1ad9d705ce6046fca76b4cb1220b3c53
os-independent
restricted function types, issue 23367, devirtualization
reader & writer; breakage incoming
reader & writer will contain an io vtable param

safe recursion, issue 1006

reusable code

neurocyte/flow

inhouse fuzzing
afl regressed
zig build test --fuzz
std.testing.fuzz( Context, fn(Context,...)anyerror!void, .{} )

( me, bk ) web server incoming, haha

kristoff
- community mirrors
	- https://ziglang.org/download/community-mirrors/
	- https://ziglang.org/download/community-mirrors.txt
- sycl vancouver 2026
	- https://softwareyoucanlove.ca/
- https://zig.day/
	- meetup early, icebreaker, hack, then share activities and results
- https://zigtoberfest.de/

Q&A:

io errorsets include `Canceled`

( me, bk ) spelling
> While both canceled and cancelled are acceptable for the past tense of cancel,
> the version with one L is more common in American English,
> and the version with two L's is more common in British English.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/canceled-or-cancelled

function coloring

( audio /voice volume levels are crazy bad /inconsistent,quiet .. )

```
fn doThing( io :IO ) {
	// try io.readFile();
	io.readFile() catch |err| switch( err ) {
		.Canceled => { ... },
		...
	}
}
```
( me, bk ) function expressions are such a huge miss

remove lld

filesystem watching is tightly coupled to filesystems

buffer field in the interface /vtable
( me, bk ) lukewarm on this
( me, bk ) XXX buffer in the Writer interface, see `writeByte`
manually creating interface, "appropriate amount of friction"
( me, bk ) i technically agree, but dislike the disposition here..
"creating an interface should be kind of annoying and you should have to put a lot of thought into it"
( me, bk ) fine, true for most things..
"and you should just usually simply not do it"
( me, bk ) pretty hard disagree here

horizon
- streams
- async io
- fuzzing
- web server

pinned structs demoted from accepted, async await previously needed, io vtable removes need

no synthetic syntax sugar for vtable-based interfaces

financial support, money, every.org
https://www.every.org/zig-software-foundation-inc

https://ziglang.org/zsf/
501(c)(3) non-profit
currently primarily uber contract & github sponsors