<- HOME - a blog about xit RSS ██╗ ██╗██╗████████╗██╗ ██████╗ ██████╗ ╚██╗██╔╝██║╚══██╔══╝██║ ██╔═══██╗██╔════╝ ╚███╔╝ ██║ ██║ ██║ ██║ ██║██║ ███╗ ██╔██╗ ██║ ██║ ██║ ██║ ██║██║ ██║ ██╔╝ ██╗██║ ██║ ███████╗╚██████╔╝╚██████╔╝ ╚═╝ ╚═╝╚═╝ ╚═╝ ╚══════╝ ╚═════╝ ╚═════╝ DEVLOG - ZIG 0.15'S BREAKING CHANGES - September 16, 2025 In the last six months, my pace with the xit project slowed down a lot, both for personal and technical reasons. I hit some snags in my personal life that I'm still working through. I'm sure some reading this can relate to the experience where ordinary pains in life can sap your once-limitless energy and excitement over a project. The project didn't change; only your brain did. On the technical side, zig 0.15 brought an avalanche of breaking changes, most of which affected xit. Through sheer force of will I got it all working in one huge commit, but it looks like 0.16 will be even more work for me once it is released. Currently xit is still using the old-style readers and writers, including many custom ones, that were deprecated as part of writergate. In 0.16 it looks like they'll be removed completely, so I will need to convert them to use the new design everywhere. Additionally, zlib compression was removed from 0.15's std lib, and there is no indication that the removal is temporary. As a stopgap measure, I was able to just copy that code into the xit project. However, it relies on the old-style writers so it won't work once 0.16 is out. So, I'll need to rewrite it to use the new writer interface, or find another implementation. I don't want this to sound like complaining. The writergate changes clearly make zig better, and arguably I "signed up for this" by using an unstable language. That said, at my reduced capacity, I wasn't prepared for this level of breakage this late in the game. I'm hoping I'll get another burst of motivation to support future versions of zig so my 2+ years of effort don't turn into bitrot.