Ziglings
Ranked 11 of 17 online courses by recommenders
A free set of small broken Zig programs you fix to learn the language, praised for being written and tested by humans for learning.
A free set of small broken Zig programs you fix to learn the language, praised for being written and tested by humans for learning.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Written and tested by humans
“It's writen and tested by humans, which is essential for learning purposes.”
Comment from 8 Jun 2026 in “Zig by Example” Fast way to learn Zig
“zig is dead fast to learn so I'd recommend just nipping through Ziglings”
Comment from 17 Nov 2025 in “Open-source Zig book” Favorite Zig learning resource
“+1 for ziglings, that's been my favorite so far”
Comment from 1 Dec 2025 in “Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground” Enjoyable to work through
“I just nearly finish Ziglings and it's great!”
Comment from 8 Dec 2025 in “Ziglings: Learn the Zig programming language by fixing tiny broken programs”
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| ZiglingsThis page | 8 | 0 | 100% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
4 of the 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“It's writen and tested by humans, which is essential for learning purposes.”
“I just nearly finish Ziglings and it's great!”
“+1 for ziglings, that's been my favorite so far”
“zig is dead fast to learn so I'd recommend just nipping through Ziglings”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.