myzigDesktop apps in Zig

Native UI drawn on the GPU, or a web frontend in the system webview. Single binaries of under a megabyte, on macOS, Linux, Windows and browsers.

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Native UI

Overview

Architecture

Native UI in Zig alone

Flexbox and grid layout, a full widget set, motion, shaders and accessibility, drawn in one instanced draw call per frame with Metal, Direct3D 11, OpenGL or WebGL 2.

Web pages with typed IPC

WKWebView, WebKitGTK or WebView2, calling Zig through a JavaScript client generated from your Zig types, with TypeScript declarations, events and channels.

The same pixels on the CPU

myzig's CPU renderer draws what every GPU renderer draws, on several cores, and is the twin each shader is tested against.

Tested without a window

ui.Tester renders views offscreen; real apps run headless with --myzig-snapshot, --myzig-script and --myzig-eval.

Builds from any machine

Linux and Windows libraries are loaded, not linked, so -Dtarget makes their binaries anywhere. No C shims, no cgo, nothing to install at build time.

Measured against mygo

The headless hill climb compares every scene with mygo and with earlier runs; changes are kept only when they climb.