ziglang/zig

Maintenance

Slowing

Human commits, 30 days

0

Human commits, 90 days

0

Human commits, 365 days

764

Bot share of commits, 365 days

0%

Last commit

Nov 27, 2025 (10 months ago)

Last human commit

Nov 27, 2025 (10 months ago)

Authors, 90 days

0

Last release

Aug 29, 2025 (1 year ago)

Median PR merge time

20 hours

Responsiveness: of 0 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

• Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.
• Only 0 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

500 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

2

Authors for 80% of commits

5

Contributors

397

Top committers

• andrewrk: 40% of commits
• alexrp: 21% of commits
• mlugg: 8% of commits
• jacobly0: 6% of commits
• squeek502: 5% of commits

• Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Feb 8, 2016 to Feb 11, 2016: about 200 more stars than usual, peak 91 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Aug 28, 2016 to Aug 31, 2016: about 132 more stars than usual, peak 67 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
• Sep 7, 2017 to Sep 9, 2017: about 69 more stars than usual, peak 39 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Oct 17, 2017 to Oct 20, 2017: about 93 more stars than usual, peak 45 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
• Jan 24, 2018 to Jan 26, 2018: about 60 more stars than usual, peak 27 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Mar 26, 2018 to Mar 27, 2018: about 37 more stars than usual, peak 28 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• May 30, 2018 to May 31, 2018: about 46 more stars than usual, peak 42 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Jun 7, 2018 to Jun 9, 2018: about 84 more stars than usual, peak 61 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 28, 2018 to Sep 29, 2018: about 28 more stars than usual, peak 21 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 14, 2018 to Oct 16, 2018: about 64 more stars than usual, peak 37 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Nov 10, 2018 to Nov 12, 2018: about 60 more stars than usual, peak 31 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Apr 10, 2019 to Apr 11, 2019: about 32 more stars than usual, peak 24 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 16, 2019 to Sep 17, 2019: about 51 more stars than usual, peak 37 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 6, 2020 to Jan 7, 2020: about 45 more stars than usual, peak 40 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 24, 2020 to Mar 26, 2020: about 179 more stars than usual, peak 81 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Aug 23, 2020 to Aug 25, 2020: about 135 more stars than usual, peak 67 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 16, 2020 to Sep 16, 2020: about 57 more stars than usual, peak 63 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 17, 2021 to Jan 18, 2021: about 82 more stars than usual, peak 71 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 7, 2021 to Mar 10, 2021: about 240 more stars than usual, peak 97 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 8, 2021 to Sep 10, 2021: about 69 more stars than usual, peak 54 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 1, 2021 to Nov 1, 2021: about 55 more stars than usual, peak 64 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 22, 2021 to Dec 22, 2021: about 73 more stars than usual, peak 85 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 16, 2022 to Apr 17, 2022: about 93 more stars than usual, peak 76 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 5, 2022 to Jul 31, 2022: about 1.8k more stars than usual, peak 220 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 23, 2022 to Oct 23, 2022: about 53 more stars than usual, peak 64 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 9, 2023 to Apr 14, 2023: about 200 more stars than usual, peak 105 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 16, 2023 to Jun 19, 2023: about 191 more stars than usual, peak 108 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 3, 2023 to Aug 4, 2023: about 95 more stars than usual, peak 72 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 9, 2023 to Sep 15, 2023: about 418 more stars than usual, peak 162 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 24, 2024 to Mar 25, 2024: about 64 more stars than usual, peak 72 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 21, 2024 to Apr 24, 2024: about 157 more stars than usual, peak 88 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 22, 2024 to Jul 24, 2024: about 112 more stars than usual, peak 85 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 26, 2024 to Dec 30, 2024: about 159 more stars than usual, peak 95 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 6, 2025 to Jan 9, 2025: about 189 more stars than usual, peak 83 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 25, 2025 to May 26, 2025: about 99 more stars than usual, peak 83 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 22, 2025 to Sep 23, 2025: about 134 more stars than usual, peak 91 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 9, 2025 to Nov 10, 2025: about 98 more stars than usual, peak 92 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 2, 2026 to Aug 2, 2026: about 57 more stars than usual, peak 63 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.

• 6 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

• The star history looks organic.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

MIT (OSI-approved)

A year ago

MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 5.2 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: ziglang/zig