State of Zig game development

kept by lunatiquez sep 25

The author details porting a moto trials prototype from WebGL to a native Zig/WebGPU game, overcoming tooling and binding issues to achieve 120‑210 fps.

Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels
Noclip.website lets users explore rendered 3D video game levels from dozens of classic titles directly in a browser using WebGL and WebGPU.
also on WebGPU, #gaming, #open-source
Gemma 4 WebGPU Kernels - a Hugging Face Space by webml-community
Gemma 4 E2B runs locally in-browser via WebGPU, letting users prompt the model directly without server-side inference.
also on WebGPU, #open-source
I made a build profiler to understand Bun’s compile times - Lalit Maganti
The author built buildprof to trace Bun's compile times, revealing that Full LTO linking and a monolithic Zig module caused slow builds, which improved with ThinLTO and crate splitting.
also on Zig, #performance, #open-source, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
Fast and Hard Code
LLMs diminish the need to learn language specifics, letting developers choose languages like Rust and Zig for speed and size, and tackle complex low‑level projects without deep expertise.
also on Zig, #performance, #developer-tools