Quantum Zig Forge
72 production Zig programs, 132 coreutils, and a bare-metal OS
Overview
A monorepo of 72 production programs and 132 coreutils replacements written in Zig — from AI inference and HTTP routers to trading engines and a bare-metal operating system with 36 completed milestones. All open source. All working. All pushing the boundaries of what Zig can do. Includes Zigix, a bare-metal x86_64/aarch64 OS that self-hosts the Zig compiler.
Features
- 72 Production Programs: AI inference, HTTP servers, trading engines, DNS server, terminal multiplexer, reverse proxy, PDF generator, P2P file transfer, WebAssembly runtime, audio DSP — all production-grade Zig.
- 132 GNU Coreutils Replacements: SIMD-accelerated, parallel, and zero-copy. zfind is 10.2× faster than GNU find. zsha256sum is 3.5× faster. 72 at full GNU parity. Every utility builds with a single zig build.
- Zigix OS: Bare-metal x86_64/aarch64 OS with 36 milestones (16 kernel + 20 userspace), 97 syscall handlers, 133 userspace binaries, ext2 read/write, TCP/IP + SSH/HTTP servers, multi-user login. Self-hosting demonstrated.
- Financial Trading: Sub-microsecond HFT engine with lock-free order book, zero-GC memory pools, columnar OHLCV database with 10M+/sec reads, and SIMD exchange feed parsing at 2M+ messages/sec.
- AI Training Data: Every program is structured, documented, idiomatic Zig 0.16+ — designed to improve AI code generation for the Zig ecosystem.
- Zero C Dependencies: The entire stack — kernel, drivers, filesystem, networking — is pure Zig and inline assembly. No libc, no external libraries.
Key Metrics
72 Programs · 132 Coreutils · 36 Milestones
Programs
AI, HTTP, trading, DNS, PDF, P2P, WASM, audio, tmux
Performance
10.2× faster than GNU (zfind)
Kernel
Zigix — 36 milestones, 97 syscalls, self-hosting
License
MIT — fully open source