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Re:Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implemen... by pjmlp on Saturday February 14, 2026 @04:58AM (#47013235)
Except for Tiger Beetle customers and the few ones using Bun, what traction?
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Re:Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implemen... by tosh on Saturday February 14, 2026 @06:24AM (#47013640)
Ghostty

https://ghostty.org

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Re:Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implemen... by pjmlp on Saturday February 14, 2026 @06:34AM (#47013707)
Another one to the list, however it hardly sounds like a killer application.
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Re:Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implemen... by pdpi on Saturday February 14, 2026 @06:49AM (#47013791)
It's been my daily driver for close to a year now. It might not be a killer application, but it's certainly enough to prove Zig isn't vapourware.
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Re:Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implemen... by pjmlp on Saturday February 14, 2026 @08:37AM (#47014436)
If that is enough, there are plenty of languages around that fit the bill.
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Re:Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implemen... by pdpi on Saturday February 14, 2026 @06:29AM (#47013677)
Ghostty.
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Re:Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implemen... by steeve on Saturday February 14, 2026 @05:40AM (#47013433)
ZML
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Re:Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implemen... by pjmlp on Saturday February 14, 2026 @05:44AM (#47013449)
What is even that? Not bothering to Google for it, which shows how irrelevant it is.
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Re:Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implemen... by dmit on Saturday February 14, 2026 @05:47AM (#47013459)
Good call, for bad reasons.

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Re:Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implemen... by gethly on Saturday February 14, 2026 @05:30AM (#47013393)
I've read Bun is just a wrapper, not actual Zig implementation anyway. Also, making a financial database in beta language that constantly changes and breaks is "really smart".
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Re:Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implemen... by dmit on Saturday February 14, 2026 @05:36AM (#47013423)
A wrapper over what?? Bun includes the JavaScriptCore engine for JS evaluation, but it's so much more.

As for financial database concerns, if you're serious about including a project like that in your system, you have thorough correctness and performance testing stages before you commit to it. And once it passes the hurdles, at that point what difference does it make if it's written in a beta language, or a bunch of shell scripts in a trench coat, or whatever.

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Re:Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implemen... by dtf on Saturday February 14, 2026 @06:16AM (#47013593)
You can actually go and read the source yourself [1]. If Bun is "just a wrapper", then surely Node.js and Deno are too?

[1] https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/tree/main/src

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