Andrew Kelley

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Lead developer & president of Zig Software Foundation.

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Last Notes

2026-04-14 16:12:32 UTC

Release notes are up!
I wish it went without saying, but these notes are completely written by hand.
https://ziglang.org/download/0.16.0/release-notes.html

2026-04-09 14:55:10 UTC

honestly I'd rather let it die. I hate this application with a burning passion
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/375/321/799/671/740/original/5f01f6f316ab6b8e.png

2026-03-03 08:34:27 UTC

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anarchy is a direction: away from centralization of power
for example, democracy is in the direction of anarchy from monarchy
free market capitalism is in the direction of anarchy from a centrally planned economy

2026-03-02 19:44:09 UTC

libertarians are just unawakened anarchists

2026-02-03 03:40:58 UTC

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in other news, my lock-free parking futex seems to be working

2026-02-03 03:38:38 UTC

"don't talk about politics" hits differently when the people saying it live in a different U.S. state as you, and are actively supporting the masked, armed thugs invading your city and hurting your neighbors and family members
it feels like being kicked while you're down and told to just shut the fuck up, by the people you thought were your friends

2026-01-12 00:35:23 UTC

let's just agree to abolish copyright! ai companies can have all the data, and pirating is legally protected

2026-01-03 11:15:58 UTC

that feeling when exactly 1 unit test is failing, *only* on big-endian targets 🧐
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/830/873/731/615/373/original/d59b21b263d86dd9.png

2026-01-02 21:40:42 UTC

we've built our global economy on the premise that software has a certain bar of quality, which as it turns out was based only on the goodwill of early enthusiast programmers.
now that the market has caught up and erased the negotiation power software engineers once enjoyed, the world is careening head first into a harsh reality of bug-ridden, adversarial software at odds with everyday life.
free software is still our north star. it's more important than ever.

2025-11-27 01:53:32 UTC

In this modern era of acquisitions, weak antitrust regulations, and platform capitalism leading to extreme concentrations of wealth, non-profits remain a bastion defending what remains of the commons.
https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/

2025-09-01 20:03:26 UTC

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you make money from ads on stack exchange so you are biased in the conversation.
switch business models to be ad-free and then I want to hear your perspective after that.

2025-08-28 06:58:13 UTC

LLMs will be super cool the moment the bubble pops and they become an underground hipster hobby, rather than a load-bearing part of the economy that oligarchs are climbing over each other to to ram down our throats as hard as they can.
I mean they already are super cool but it's hard to notice with all the disgusting pigs surrounding it, trying to become the next GPU slum lords of the 21st century.

2025-07-25 18:40:35 UTC

everyone tryna trick me into paying like $20/month for programming
NICE TRY!
programming is free, suckas

2025-06-06 21:29:03 UTC

Thanks to Alex Rønne Petersen, ziglang.org now has automated FreeBSD builds available on the download page (including master branch).
more details: https://ziglang.org/devlog/2025/#2025-05-20

2025-06-04 23:32:05 UTC

To work in technology is to be an optimist. There is no other way. We must have faith in the goodness of mankind, or we are ushering in our own destruction, complicit in untold suffering of others, offering despots the very tools of tyranny.

2025-05-22 17:55:18 UTC

you know how when you're a kid, you can't really make permanent mistakes? if you do it's kinda your parents fault, you know? until you become a teenager and then you start doing things like driving a car, having sex, saying yes or no to drugs, and all the sudden your choices are permanent for your entire life
I feel like humanity itself has entered its teenage years.
video related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC2eSujzrUY

2025-03-03 20:31:56 UTC

I'm heartened by seeing more people catch on to my political philosophy:
1. Don't take the black pill. People are Good, and we can fix this.
2. Don't virtue signal. Everybody is welcome in the tent.
3. The people who vote in exacerbation of the problem are confused, not evil. They are not only our allies, they are us.
All we need to do is recycle enough money throughout the economy, so that it doesn't pool at the top. Such a simple, easy fix, if we could stop bickering about other crap.

2025-02-13 19:51:11 UTC

I think the Rust vs C in Linux debate should be settled with Sudden Death... whoever can fix my goddamn iwlwifi driver crash first wins
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/998/315/784/283/572/original/9a6bb86cb1297cc2.png

2024-11-30 20:03:42 UTC

One thing I appreciate about Mastodon is that if I slip into a bad habit of scrolling through the feed too much in one day, I start seeing old posts that I've already seen, and then I realize that I'm doing a bad habit, and that helps me stop checking the site too often.
On other platforms they would do anything to prevent that moment of self-reflection from occurring.

2024-11-14 22:48:29 UTC

I have a couple images generated by stable diffusion in the slides for my Handmade Seattle talk next week. I know this is somewhat controversial, but I really want to depict a couple scenes in particular and I started working on my slides too late to hire an artist. I think I will roll the dice with how they are received because the image in my head is vivid and the stable diffusion output is close enough to give the audience a glimpse into my imagination.

2024-11-14 01:10:09 UTC

Inside of you are two wolves:
One of them wants to be grammatically correct and put the punctuation inside "the quoted text."
The other one has been programming for 25 years and is howling at the top of its lungs, "I demand proper nesting!".

2024-11-12 23:45:08 UTC

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alternate joke:
what they say: no dependencies
what they mean: over half of the project's line count by volume was written by Sean Barrett
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/472/627/308/735/715/original/cd344672ddbf30b2.png
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2024-11-12 23:36:59 UTC

when a C/C++ programmer says "no dependencies" it means they have copied unknown versions of various dependencies into a particular subdirectory of their project.
you can learn a lot about the author's personality by what directory name they choose.
"vendor" -> web developer adjacent
"deps" -> uncomfortably self-aware
"thirdparty" -> unskilled grifter
"common" -> sneaky

2024-10-21 19:35:50 UTC

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can you explain? I realized I haven't yet read this literary classic and I was unable to understand this analogy via the Wikipedia plot summary

2024-10-21 07:15:20 UTC

macOS keeps nagging me to accept iCloud terms of sevice when I don't want to use iCloud. It can't be disabled. Feels like this should be illegal.
I found a reddit thread where someone else complained about this and they made fun of the person for not wanting to agree to T&C for a service they aren't going to use... wtf

2024-10-17 20:42:41 UTC

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if you have time, I would invite you to inspect how formatted printing works in the zig standard library. It uses `inline for` to loop over the format string. Last I checked, the formatted printing macro in Rust was hard-coded in the compiler!

2024-10-17 20:36:55 UTC

Disappointed to see @npub1cxq…6wtz make a poor quality assessment of Zig.
Everyone is entitled to their opinions but I think she is doing her followers and herself a disservice with such a shallow take.
For instance she claims that Zig has no alternative to the C preprocessor... come on. You don't have to look very hard to understand the alternative to macros that Zig offers; it's practically Zig's trademark feature.
I respect your driver work. Please take a deeper look at Zig. よろしくおねがいします。

2024-10-08 20:14:00 UTC

I love this take:
"Don't you find it infuriating when lawyers and accountants fail to clarify how their respective domains work, making them unavoidable intermediaries of systems that in theory you should be able to navigate by yourself?
Whenever we fail to make simple things easy in software engineering, and webdev especially, we are failing society in the exact same way."
from https://kristoff.it/blog/static-site-paradox/

2024-09-05 04:48:49 UTC

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2024-09-05 00:16:44 UTC

Mozilla is truly an advertisement company now. From the bottom of my heart, fuck you, everybody at Mozilla.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/082/052/947/055/523/original/99dbaa738cdb2a4b.png

2024-08-13 00:37:23 UTC

it's maddening how 99% of company and app websites don't mention the 2 facts that give you most of the information you need before you decide how much to trust them;
1. what kind of corp is it? nonprofit? publicly traded? privately owned?
2. how old is the company?
if the company is popular enough, this data will be featured prominently on wikipedia, otherwise you're Shit Outta Luck.