Post Syndicated from jzb original https://lwn.net/Articles/1067634/

The Zig project has announced version
0.16.0 of the Zig programming language.

This release features 8 months of work: changes
from 244 different contributors, spread among
1183 commits.

Perhaps most notably, this release debuts I/O
as an Interface, but don’t sleep on the Language
Changes or enhancements to the Compiler,
Build
System, Linker,
Fuzzer,
and Toolchain
which are also included in this release.

LWN last covered Zig in
December 2025.