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Good First Issues in Zig

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Top Zig Repositories with Beginner Issues (14)

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here-Leslie-Lau
zlist
here-Leslie-Lau/zlist
S•Elite
56·Zig

A modern ls alternative written in Zig.

#cli#command-line#ls
94%
Merge Rate
5h
Review Time
100%
1st-Timers
1 GFI
Scorecard
roc-lang
roc
roc-lang/roc
S•Elite
6.0k·Zig

A fast, friendly, functional language.

#functional-language#functional-programming#language
90%
Merge Rate
21h
Review Time
74%
1st-Timers
4 GFI
Scorecard
Seafoam-Labs
Shelly-ALPM
Seafoam-Labs/Shelly-ALPM
S•Elite
1.0k·Zig

Pacman alternative for ArchLinux, designed with you in mind.

#archlinux#cachyos#cli
91%
Merge Rate
1d
Review Time
81%
1st-Timers
1 GFI
Scorecard
zwasm
zwasm
zwasm/zwasm
B•Solid
162·Zig

A fast, spec-compliant WebAssembly runtime written in Zig

#jit#runtime#simd
71%
Merge Rate
1d
Review Time
50%
1st-Timers
2 GFI
Scorecard
DonIsaac
zlint
DonIsaac/zlint
A•Welcoming
308·Zig

A linter for the Zig programming language

#linters#zig
76%
Merge Rate
12h
Review Time
100%
1st-Timers
1 GFI
Scorecard
Vexu
arocc
Vexu/arocc
A•Welcoming
1.8k·Zig

A modern fully featured C compiler.

#c#compiler#zig
88%
Merge Rate
6d
Review Time
90%
1st-Timers
1 GFI
Scorecard
david-vanderson
dvui
david-vanderson/dvui
A•Welcoming
1.6k·Zig

Immediate Zig GUI for Apps and Games

76%
Merge Rate
2d
Review Time
87%
1st-Timers
1 GFI
Scorecard
ZigEmbeddedGroup
microzig
ZigEmbeddedGroup/microzig
A•Welcoming
2.3k·Zig

MicroZig is a toolbox for building embedded applications in Zig.

#embedded#hal#zig
64%
Merge Rate
18h
Review Time
60%
1st-Timers
3 GFI
Scorecard
Loongphy
codex-auth
Loongphy/codex-auth
B•Solid
2.5k·Zig

A CLI tool to switch and manage Codex accounts

#codex#zig
73%
Merge Rate
9d
Review Time
60%
1st-Timers
1 GFI
Scorecard
kristoff-it
superhtml
kristoff-it/superhtml
B•Solid
1.4k·Zig

HTML Validator, Formatter, LSP, and Templating Language Library

#html#language-server#language-server-protocol
71%
Merge Rate
18d
Review Time
100%
1st-Timers
1 GFI
Scorecard
neurosnap
zmx
neurosnap/zmx
B•Solid
2.1k·Zig

Session attach/detach for the terminal

#ghostty#session-persistence#tmux
46%
Merge Rate
6d
Review Time
56%
1st-Timers
1 GFI
Scorecard
gdzig
gdzig
gdzig/gdzig
B•Solid
211·Zig

Zig bindings for Godot 4

25%
Merge Rate
8d
Review Time
0%
1st-Timers
1 GFI
Scorecard
smithersai
claude-p
smithersai/claude-p
B•Solid
391·Zig

Drop-in replacement for `claude -p` that drives the interactive Claude Code TUI inside an in-process zmux PTY session.

50%
Merge Rate
-
Review Time
100%
1st-Timers
1 GFI
Scorecard
shilangyu
scoop-search
shilangyu/scoop-search
D•Risky
387·Zig

Fast `scoop search` drop-in replacement 🚀

#fast-search#hacktoberfest#scoop
-
Merge Rate
-
Review Time
0%
1st-Timers
2 GFI
Scorecard

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