# Ziglings

8 Hacker News commenters recommended Ziglings and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** A free set of small broken Zig programs you fix to learn the language, praised for being written and tested by humans for learning.

## Why people recommend it

- Written and tested by humans (1 comments): "It's writen and tested by humans, which is essential for learning purposes." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446678))
- Fast way to learn Zig (1 comments): "zig is dead fast to learn so I'd recommend just nipping through Ziglings" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45952209))
- Favorite Zig learning resource (1 comments): "+1 for ziglings, that's been my favorite so far" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46102783))
- Enjoyable to work through (1 comments): "I just nearly finish Ziglings and it's great!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46186897))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Ziglings", https://hackerapproved.com/p/ziglings/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).