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24 alternatives to Production-ready Zig template for Flipper Zero apps

If you've debugged a null pointer exception on a Flipper Zero, you know the pain - the device crashes, you reflash, add print statements, repeat. Memory bugs in embedded C are brutal because they only surface at runtime on the actual hardware. This template lets you write Flipper Zero applications in Zig, giving you: - Memory safety and compile-time error checking - Bounds-checked arrays and explicit error handling - Clean build system that works cross-platform - Integration with UFBT for packaging and deployment - No special IDE required - just Zig, UFBT, and your editor The interesting…

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FlopperZiro – A DIY open-source Flipper Zero clone▲364
A Flipper Zero clone, but cheapest, DIY and simply Open Source, made with Arduino IDE - lraton/FlopperZiro
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Tiny VM sandbox in C with apps in Rust, C and Zig▲196
Minimalist, dependency-free virtual machine sandbox for microcontrollers and other resource-constrained devices. Single C file, no dynamic memory allocations, asynchronous design, pure C99 - ringtailsoftware/uvm32
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Error return traces for Go, inspired by Zig▲133
An alternative to stack traces for your Go errors. Contribute to bracesdev/errtrace development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
4
Compile C to Not Gates▲145
Hi! I've been working on the flipjump project, a programming language with 1 opcode: flip (invert) a bit, then jump (unconditionally). So a bit-flip followed by more bit-flips. It's effectively a bunch of NOT gates. This language, as poor as it sounds, is RICH. Today I completed my compiler from C to FlipJump. It takes C files, and compiles them into flipjump. I finished testing it all today, and it works! My key interest in this project is to stretch what we know of computing and to prove that anything can be done even with minimal power. I appreciate you reading my announcement, and be…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Zigma by NextUI (YC S24)▲426
Connect your design files to production code in minutes
2024 · zigma.io · its alternatives →
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I wrote an OS in 1000 lines of Zig▲151
A minimal RISC-V 32-bit OS written in Zig. Contribute to botirkhaltaev/pico-os development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Zerocoder▲206
Get matched with best-fit developers & see results in 24 hrs
2023 · zerocoder.com · its alternatives →
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Zeroqode 2.0▲286
Everything you need to build apps without code.
2018 · zeroqode.com · its alternatives →
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I wrote a minimal memory allocator in C▲137
A fun toy memory allocator (not thread safe, that's a future TODO). I also wanted to explain how I approached it, so I also wrote a tutorial blog post (~20 minute read) covering the code which you can find the link to in the README.
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Zero-codegen, no-compile TypeScript type inference from Protobufs▲138
🛫 Zero-codegen, no-compile TypeScript `type` inference from protobuf `message`s - nathanhleung/protobuf-ts-types
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A “living” Linux process with no memory▲312
A "living" Linux process with no memory. Contribute to izabera/zeromaps development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Zli – A Batteries-Included CLI Framework for Zig▲95
I built zli, a batteries-included CLI framework for Zig with a focus on DX and composability. Key features: - Typed flags with default values and help output - Rich formatting, and layout support - Command trees with isolated execution logic - It’s designed to feel good to use, not just to work. - Built for real-world CLI apps, not toy examples. Would love feedback, feature ideas, or thoughts from other Zig devs. repo here: https://github.com/xcaeser/zli
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Flipper Zero▲88
A portable multi-tool device styled as a Tamagotchi
2020 · flipper.net · its alternatives →
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Zerobox – Sandbox any command with file, network, credential controls▲141
I'm excited to introduce Zerobox, a cross-platform, single binary process sandboxing CLI written in Rust. It uses the sandboxing crates from the OpenAI Codex repo and adds additional functionalities like secret injection, SDK, etc. Watch the demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZiPm9BOPCg Zerobox follows the same sandboxing policy as Deno which is deny by default. The only operation that the command can run is reading files, all writes and network I/O are blocked by default. No VMs, no Docker, no remote servers. Want to block reads to /etc? zerobox…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Zig Topological Sort Library for Parallel Processing▲114
I believe the best way to learn a language is by doing an in-depth project. This is my first Zig project intended for learning the ropes on publishing a Zig package. It turns out to be quite solid and performant. It might be a bit over-engineered. This little library is packed with the following features: - Building dependency graph from dependency data. - Performing topological sort on the dependency graph. - Generating dependence-free subsets for parallel processing. - Cycle detection and cycle reporting.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Dangless-malloc – Safe dangling pointer errors (master thesis)▲66
2018 · dangless.gaborkozar.me · its alternatives →
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zeroheight 3.0▲170
Design system documentation synced with Sketch & code
2018 · zeroheight.com · its alternatives →
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Zig-DbC – A design by contract library for Zig▲46
Hi everyone, I've made an open-source library for using design by contract (DbC) principles in the Zig programming language. It's called Zig-DbC, and it currently provides the following features: - A simple API to define preconditions, postconditions, and invariants. - Contracts are active in `Debug`, `ReleaseSafe`, and `ReleaseSmall` modes to catch bugs early. - All checks are removed at compile time in `ReleaseFast` mode for zero performance cost. - An optional mode to handle partial state changes in functions that return errors. - Transparent error handling that propagates errors from…
2025 · its alternatives →
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Whetuu – a zero-config cross-shell prompt written in Zig▲50
A single compiled binary that renders one curated status line for fish, bash and zsh, and binds the up arrow to its own history picker. The slowest module runs as a task via std.Io while the rest run alongside it, so a render costs about what its slowest probe costs.
Jul 2026 · yamafaktory.github.io · its alternatives →
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CLR, POC borrow checker for Zig▲23
Checker for Lifetimes and other Refinement types. Contribute to ityonemo/clr development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I built a JSON-RPC library for Zig with compile time reflection▲13
Doing dynamic dispatching in a strict static typing language is hard. Something as simple as, map.put("add", add); map.put("hello", hello); fn add(a: i32, b: i32) i32 { return a + b; } fn hello() []const u8 { return "Hello World"; } is impossible because the value type of key/value of the map needs to be the same but all the function types are different. Calling functions with different number of parameters, different parameter types, and different return type dynamically is difficult. Other languages either use dynamic typing, runtime reflection, macro, or passing in one big generic…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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zeroheight for Adobe XD▲89
Collaborative design system documentation synced with XD
2019 · zeroheight.com · its alternatives →
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I made a zero-copy coroutine tracer to find my scheduler's lost wakeups▲49
A cross-language, zero-copy coroutine observability framework based on the cTP shared-memory protocol, utilizing lock-free ring buffers for ultra-low overhead state tracing. - lixiasky-back/coroTracer
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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zkGolf – Competitive optimization of formally verified circuits▲69
Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) let an untrusted proved show that computation was executed correctly without revealing the inputs to the verifier. However to prove anything, the computation first has to be expressed as a circuit: a system of polynomial equations (constraints) over a finite field. Circuits are the assembly language of zk and every constraint costs prover (and sometimes verifier) time, so production circuits are aggressively hand-optimized. Over the last months, we have been experimenting with writing formal specifications instead and letting LLMs produce the circuits: as long as…
Jul 2026 · zk.golf · its alternatives →

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