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Community

The Zig community is decentralized. Anyone is free to start and maintain their own space for the community to gather and submit a pull request to edit this page to add a link.

There is no concept of “official” or “unofficial”, however, each gathering place has its own moderators and rules.

When adding a new community, please append it at the end of the existing list as a form of courtesy.

See the Compiler Development section (near the end of this page) for communities dedicated to Zig compiler development collaboration.

Due to time constraints, the Zig Core Team reserves the right to arbitrarily curate this page based on opaque, subjective opinions, as well as to neglect to curate this page for long periods of time.

General discussion

IRC

Discord (English)

Discord (International)

Tencent QQ

Telegram

Matrix / Element

Zulip

Stoat

Slack

WhatsApp

Email List

Forums

Merchandise

MAX

X (formerly Twitter)

Reddit

(This section written by Andrew Kelley)

I used to moderate the /r/zig subreddit. During the Reddit protests in June 2023, I decided to permanently shut down /r/zig, making it private, encouraging users to head to ziggit.dev instead.

A troll messaged Reddit admins and gained moderator access to /r/zig, re-opened the subreddit, and started doing juvenile vandalism for a few weeks, before deciding they had enough fun and abandoning the place.

Next, Jens Goldberg messaged the Reddit admins and managed to become a moderator of /r/zig. He’s pretty hands-off, does not do a lot of moderation, lets the Reddit voting system handle disagreements.

While the subreddit was private, the vast majority of valuable people moved to other communities. Most of the people who remained were riff raff, willing to tolerate trolling and more interested in Reddit as a platform than Zig as a project.

Now, the Zig subreddit is a complete wasteland, and I personally advise against going there. In fact I have deleted my entire Reddit account.

I don’t have the time or energy to evaluate most Zig communities so I can neither endorse nor anti-endorse them, however, the Zig subreddit is an exception.

It’s an awful place and I stand by my decision to permanently close it. I am unhappy that it was reopened against my will.

Streams

SHOWTIME

The show where members of the Zig community share code and ideas.

https://zig.show/

Individuals

Compiler Development

These communities are focused on Zig compiler development collaboration.

Warning: If you’re a newcomer and want help learning Zig, instead look into general discussion communities that have a space dedicated to onboarding newcomers.

Zulip