5 alternatives to zig
ziglang/zig — Moved to Codeberg (43,256 stars, MIT, auth, files, ui).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 3,000 licence-cleared components from ziglang/zig itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rust-lang/rust | 6.3 | Apache-2.0 | 120,998 |
| 2 | vexu/arocc | 4.4 | MIT | 1,861 |
| 3 | fuellabs/sway | 7.0 | Apache-2.0 | 61,374 |
| 4 | carbon-language/carbon-lang | 5.9 | Apache-2.0 | 33,914 |
| 5 | gentee/gentee | 4.8 | MIT | 146 |
The alternatives in detail
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Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.score 6.3/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 120,998 stars · 3,013 components · search them · alternatives
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A modern fully featured C compiler.score 4.4/10 · MIT permissive · 1,861 stars · 7 components · search them
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🌴 Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient smart contracts.score 7.0/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 61,374 stars · 609 components · search them
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Carbon Language's main repository: documents, design, implementation, and related tools. (NOTE: Carbon Language is experimental; see README)score 5.9/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 33,914 stars · 762 components · search them
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Gentee - script programming language for automation. It uses VM and compiler written in Go (Golang).score 4.8/10 · MIT permissive · 146 stars · 65 components · search them
Licence data: JustClaw-It's per-repo licence policy. Is zig still maintained? Check it. Licence details: licence checker. Ranking data from 2026-11-08T22:23:49Z.
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