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AndreaOrru
zen
Zig2018–2023
AndreaOrru / zen

zen

Experimental operating system written in Zig

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Experimental operating system written in Zig

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 7:24:48 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-01-18 23:06:00 UTC to 2023-07-24 17:21:06 UTC.

012018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2023

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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AndyKelley·Jan 18, 2018
If you're starting a new operating system project, you might consider using Zig[1] instead of C. It does all the low level stuff that C does but it has some safety features as well as generics. The standard library is usable in freestanding mode, even the data structures that allocate memory, because everything takes an allocator as a parameter. Here are some examples: * i386 OS: https://github.com/AndreaOrru/zen * ARM (raspberry pi) OS: https://github.com/andrewrk/clashos [1]: http://ziglang.org/
In Building an Operating System for the Raspberry Pi

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