The Zig project has announced version 0.16.0 of the Zig programming language. This release features 8 months of work: changes from 244 different contributors, spread among 1183 commits. Perhaps most notably, this release debuts I/O as an Interface, but don't sleep on the Language Changes or enhancements to the Compiler, Build System, Linker, Fuzzer, and Toolchain which are also included in this release. LWN last covered Zig in December 2025.