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    Show HN: Zedis – A Redis clone I'm writing in Zig

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    135 points barddoo | 18 comments | 19 Sep 25 21:55 UTC | HN request time: 1.478s | source | bottom

    Writing Redis from scratch in Zig.
    1. pdntspa ◴[19 Sep 25 23:25 UTC] No.45308007[source]▶
    Is zig lang stable enough now to start basing real projects on it?
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    2. justinhj ◴[19 Sep 25 23:29 UTC] No.45308038[source]▶
    Check out Tigerbeetle and Ghostty
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    3. jrpelkonen ◴[20 Sep 25 00:01 UTC] No.45308281[source]▶
    Also bun
    4. fishmicrowaver ◴[20 Sep 25 00:15 UTC] No.45308387[source]▶
    I mean no offense but a billionaires vanity terminal and a database with an anime bug mascot are a bit different than a redis alternative
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    5. dpatterbee ◴[20 Sep 25 00:29 UTC] No.45308492{3}[source]▶
    Is software not real software if it's written by a billionaire? What is it about the bug mascot that detracts from the database's legitimacy?
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    6. tonyhart7 ◴[20 Sep 25 00:31 UTC] No.45308512[source]▶
    "Is zig lang stable enough now to start basing real projects on it?"

    only if you want to refactor/rewrite a lot

    7. barddoo ◴[20 Sep 25 00:36 UTC] No.45308547[source]▶
    The standard library is changing too much to be honest. During the development of the library Zig 0.15 launched and changed the whole Io library.
    8. pyrolistical ◴[20 Sep 25 00:38 UTC] No.45308564[source]▶
    Depends on your definition of stable. I would suspect most people would consider it unstable as they are still breaking the API for async. Wait for 1.0 if you really need true stability. But zig is just so good not to use now
    9. ◴[20 Sep 25 00:40 UTC] No.45308583{4}[source]▶
    10. aschobel ◴[20 Sep 25 00:44 UTC] No.45308614{3}[source]▶
    bun is real and spectacular. super loving using it
    11. rvrb ◴[20 Sep 25 01:13 UTC] No.45308834{3}[source]▶
    Good point, the database written in Zig with a bug mascot tells us nothing about writing a database in Zig without a bug mascot
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    12. nitishr ◴[20 Sep 25 01:24 UTC] No.45308957[source]▶
    it hasn't reached version 1.0
    13. justinhj ◴[20 Sep 25 02:22 UTC] No.45309607{3}[source]▶
    If all you know about Tigerbeetle is the mascot you should probably take another look before judging. Some very interesting db tech.
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    14. throwawaymaths ◴[20 Sep 25 02:54 UTC] No.45309836{4}[source]▶
    im not sure i trust any hot takes from a person that doesn't know anything about anime
    15. sroerick ◴[20 Sep 25 03:08 UTC] No.45309925{4}[source]▶
    Tigerbeetle is one of the most interesting projects I've seen in recent memory
    16. garbagepatch ◴[20 Sep 25 05:14 UTC] No.45310592{4}[source]▶
    What's the problem with the mascot? PostgreSQL has an elephant and MySQL a dolphin. Is the bug too detailed for database software?
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    17. ◴[20 Sep 25 08:59 UTC] No.45311651[source]▶
    18. nickmonad ◴[20 Sep 25 13:23 UTC] No.45313165{5}[source]▶
    Why would we want a literal BUG as a mascot?? /s