Ziggity – A terminal UI for Git, written in Zig

Neat project, but the README would benefit from a human author. I can tell what you prompted by the way the README is worded. It should tell me more about what this project solves. I don't care that it uses idiomatic zig. Why should I use this instead of lazygit?

This is huge. I've always wanted to use Git in the terminal but never been happy with the underlying language that other TUIs were written in. Now that I know that I'm using developer-managed memory I can be much more comfortable and confident changing between branches, pushing, and pulling, and even merging code. Thanks Simone!

I wonder when is the 900,000 lines single commit coming for Rust rewrite

Very cool, but if I'm prompting / looping an AI agent as my main development process, what is the use case here? I feel the biggest help would be to make Reviewing PRs from the terminal easier, I care less about commit logs and status.

I know what these words mean, but if I didn't this would be a whole lot of nonsense.

Maybe can emphasize yourself and call it LazyZig or something with the lazy moniker.

i've always found magit better than any opinionated git terminal UI. Including LazyGit.

With Claude, i find myself reaching for Magit even less.

If Quagmire were in charge of naming things.

I like the Zig+Git+TTY portmanteau.

Need to change the logo to one of a guy with a massive chin and a creepy stare.

I like it but the donut animation is not needed, overbuilding gives AI slop vibes

I would love to use it without gimmicks.

Honest feedback:

This is AI generated TUI slop made with claude.

I've been seeing a sad trend of these things being built with AI with no care and will be just abandoned in less than a month.

Why should I use this when I can use lazygit which is more popular and has been around and battle tested for years?

I’m such a CLANKER hater now, I want to know if this was written by agents or not. If written by agents, I don’t want anything to do with it. I only want human written software, even LLM autocomplete seems a bridge too far.

i appreciate that it’s not more rust slop, but i never understood the need for a git frontend.

Hi HN, I've been building Ziggity, a keyboard-driven terminal UI for Git. It's inspired by lazygit (which I used daily), but written from scratch in Zig rather than being a port.

Why another one? Two reasons, honestly. There were a few areas of lazygit I wanted to improve on for my own workflow, and I wanted a real project to build in Zig, which is genuinely powerful and fast, and a joy once it clicks. It compiles to a single small static binary with explicit memory ownership and no libgit2, it just shells out to the `git` you already have. The UI is built on libvaxis. And I let myself add a bit of sugar along the way, because a tool you stare at all day might as well be pleasant.

A few things that are a bit different from lazygit: - A divergence view + status-coloured commit hashes so ahead/behind commits stand out at a glance - Independent drill-downs in the Branches/Commits panels (deliberate, not a port artifact) - Line level staging, interactive rebase, custom patch building, bisect, arbitrary-ref diffing

It's honest about its stage: v0.3.0, macOS/Linux/Windows builds, MIT. The Windows build compiles and libvaxis supports it, but I haven't smoke-tested it on real hardware yet. There's an about screen with a spinning ASCII donut, because why not.

Install: `brew install simoarpe/ziggity/ziggity`, or grab a static binary from the releases page.

Repo: https://github.com/simoarpe/ziggity

I'd genuinely appreciate feedback, especially on the UX and on the Zig code if you're into that. It's a spare time project, so bug reports and "this feels wrong" notes are welcome.

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I actually made the same thing in Rust https://github.com/lnenad/difiko

Just FYI a large portion is vibecoded for those that don't like that.