Welcoming Repositories Index Zig Ecosystem
Top Welcoming Open-Source Zig Repositories
Top welcoming Zig repositories. Scored by real 90-day external PR merge rates, maintainer review turnaround speed, and first-time contributor success.
Updated daily • Sun, 30 Aug 2026 UTC
Tracked Repos
406
>100 stars verified
Avg Merge Rate
89%
90-day external PRs
Open GFIs
13
Beginner friendly issues
Welcoming Tier
21
S & A Tier maintainers
Ranked Zig Repositories
Showing top 50 of 406 ranked repositories
| Rank | Repository | Tier | Score | Merge Rate | Good First Issues |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | roc-lang/roc5,993 A fast, friendly, functional language. | S•Elite | 75.8 | 90.3% | 4 |
| #2 | Pacman alternative for ArchLinux, designed with you in mind. | S•Elite | 71.9 | 90.6% | 1 |
| #3 | A•Welcoming | 69.9 | 85.6% | - | |
| #4 | Gooey is a hybrid immediate/retained mode UI framework designed for building fast, GPU-rendered applications on macOS/Metal, WebAssembly/WebGPU, and Wayland/Vulkan | B•Solid | 69.7 | 96.8% | - |
| #5 | Delve is a framework for writing Games in Zig and Lua. For those who value being cross platform and keeping things simple. | B•Solid | 69.6 | 100.0% | - |
| #6 | A•Welcoming | 69.3 | 85.7% | - | |
| #7 | Zig 语言圣经：简单、快速地学习 Zig, Zig Chinese tutorial, learn zig simply and quickly | B•Solid | 68.3 | 100.0% | - |
| #8 | A cross-platform terminal workspace for remote development and AI agent workflows, powered by libghostty-vt | A•Welcoming | 66.2 | 97.9% | - |
| #9 | GPU accelerated terminal for agentic workflows | A•Welcoming | 66.2 | 96.8% | - |
| #10 | lightpanda-io/browser34,315 Lightpanda: the headless browser designed for AI and automation | A•Welcoming | 65.8 | 87.3% | - |
| #11 | lalinsky/zio588 Async I/O framework for Zig | A•Welcoming | 65.7 | 85.8% | - |
| #12 | A fast, spec-compliant WebAssembly runtime written in Zig | B•Solid | 64.9 | 89.9% | - |
| #13 | Qt 6 for Zig | B•Solid | 64.7 | 100.0% | - |
| #14 | zwasm/zwasm162 A fast, spec-compliant WebAssembly runtime written in Zig | B•Solid | 64.4 | 71.2% | 2 |
| #15 | indaco/malt153 Homebrew's whole ecosystem, none of its weight - a single Zig binary with native post_install and a themeable TUI & CLI. | B•Solid | 64.2 | 96.4% | - |
| #16 | Native LLM inference server for Apple Silicon. OpenAI + Anthropic API compatible. No Python. Includes MLX Core macOS app with chat, agent mode, and tool calling. | A•Welcoming | 63.8 | 72.0% | - |
| #17 | a dynamic language for the joy of programming | B•Solid | 63.3 | 100.0% | - |
| #18 | A Terminal UI framework for Zig | B•Solid | 63.2 | 96.7% | - |
| #19 | A linter for the Zig programming language | A•Welcoming | 62.6 | 76.5% | 1 |
| #20 | 🕳️ VOID — Terminal emulator written in hexa-lang. | B•Solid | 62.4 | 100.0% | - |
| #21 | tigerbeetle/tigerbeetle16,931 The financial transactions database designed for mission critical safety and performance. | A•Welcoming | 62.3 | 73.1% | - |
| #22 | xcaeser/zli334 📟 Build ergonomic, high-performance command-line tools (CLI) with zig. | B•Solid | 62.0 | 100.0% | - |
| #23 | Vexu/arocc1,798 A modern fully featured C compiler. | A•Welcoming | 61.1 | 88.0% | 1 |
| #24 | sleep3r/mtproto.zig1,052 Keep the people you love connected — a tiny self-hosted Telegram proxy that hides in plain HTTPS | A•Welcoming | 60.9 | 94.6% | - |
| #25 | High-performance JavaScript/TypeScript compiler toolchain in Zig. | A•Welcoming | 60.5 | 84.6% | - |
| #26 | david-vanderson/dvui1,635 Immediate Zig GUI for Apps and Games | A•Welcoming | 60.5 | 75.7% | 1 |
| #27 | ghostty-org/ghostty60,455 👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration. | A•Welcoming | 60.3 | 66.4% | - |
| #28 | zml/zml3,995 Any model. Any hardware. Zero compromise. Built with @ziglang / @openxla / MLIR / @bazelbuild | A•Welcoming | 59.6 | 78.3% | - |
| #29 | Simple Hotkey Daemon for macOS, ported from skhd by koekeishiya | A•Welcoming | 58.3 | 92.9% | - |
| #30 | An MMO game written in Erlang + PostgreSQL (+ Omnigres) + Zig (+ Raylib), powered by a Nix-based devenv | B•Solid | 58.1 | 100.0% | - |
| #31 | ⚡️ Ziggity an ultra fast, keyboard driven terminal UI for Git, written in Zig. | B•Solid | 57.8 | 100.0% | - |
| #32 | Collection of Algorithms implemented in Zig. | B•Solid | 57.8 | 80.0% | - |
| #33 | Generates Complete Zig bindings for Win32. See https://github.com/marlersoft/zigwin32 for the bindings themselves. | B•Solid | 57.5 | 97.1% | - |
| #34 | Syndica/sig403 a Solana validator client implementation written in Zig | A•Welcoming | 57.5 | 75.8% | - |
| #35 | Zig TOML (v1.0.0) parser | B•Solid | 57.4 | 85.7% | - |
| #36 | MicroZig is a toolbox for building embedded applications in Zig. | A•Welcoming | 57.1 | 64.2% | 3 |
| #37 | UCI Chess Engine written in Zig. | B•Solid | 57.1 | 92.9% | - |
| #38 | justrach/codedb1,367 Zig code intelligence server and MCP toolset for AI agents. Fast tree, outline, symbol, search, read, edit, deps, snapshot, and remote GitHub repo queries. | A•Welcoming | 57.1 | 80.3% | - |
| #39 | zero-dependency image processing library | B•Solid | 56.6 | 89.4% | - |
| #40 | dmtrKovalenko/odiff3,161 A very fast SIMD-first image comparison library (with nodejs API) | B•Solid | 56.2 | 100.0% | - |
| #41 | Flake for packaging, building and running Zig projects. | B•Solid | 55.7 | 100.0% | - |
| #42 | *Very* fast recursive file walking and globbing library for Zig, C, and Rust. With gitignore support. 100% POSIX compatible | B•Solid | 55.7 | 89.5% | - |
| #43 | Native PostgreSQL driver / client for Zig | B•Solid | 55.7 | 83.3% | - |
| #44 | karlseguin/http.zig1,586 An HTTP/1.1 server for zig | B•Solid | 55.5 | 87.5% | - |
| #45 | A toolkit for building command lines programs in Zig. | B•Solid | 55.4 | 76.0% | - |
| #46 | Octopass brings GitHub's team management to your Linux servers. No more manually managing /etc/passwd or distributing SSH keys — just add users to your GitHub team, and they're ready to SSH into your servers. | B•Solid | 55.2 | 100.0% | - |
| #47 | B•Solid | 55.2 | 85.0% | - | |
| #48 | An asynchronous runtime for writing applications and services. Supports io_uring, epoll, kqueue, and poll for I/O. | B•Solid | 55.1 | 100.0% | - |
| #49 | Pure Zig 2D graphics library | B•Solid | 55.1 | 100.0% | - |
| #50 | [ BOF-LAUNCHER ] -> an API for loading, executing and in-memory masking BOFs on Windows and Linux for use in C/Zig/Go/Rust agents/implants. [ Z-BEAC0N ] -> a custom-written stage-1 (aka pre-C2) solution engineered with a small footprint, stealth and modularity in mind. [ DEVELOPED BOFS ] -> cross-platform (12), Linux-only (10), Win-only (2) | B•Solid | 54.7 | 100.0% | - |
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Frequently Asked Questions: Zig Open Source
What is the most welcoming Zig open-source repository?
The highest-ranked Zig repository on GetMerged is currently roc-lang/roc, with a C-Rank score of 75.8/100 and a 90.3% PR merge rate.
How can I find good first issues in Zig?
You can browse verified beginner-friendly issues in Zig by visiting our curated Good First Issues directory at getmerged.abhishekco.de/good-first-issue/zig.
What makes a Zig repository ‘Super Welcoming’ on GetMerged?
A ‘Super Welcoming’ (S-Tier) Zig repository demonstrates an external PR merge rate above 80%, a median first response time within 24 to 48 hours, active review feedback, and clear onboarding documentation.