Zig
Zig↗ is a programming language created by Andrew Kelley↗. Unlike the vast majority of languages aiming to replace C, zig has managed to survive and thrive by making good engineering decissions.
I like it a lot, yet I rarely use zig for my own projects. The language and standard library are still often updated with breaking changes. I agree with pretty much all of these changes, however I'd rather not run to stay in place; Updating all my zig projects turned out to be a bit tedious.
I'll reevaluate zig as my go-to language for systems programming once it is stable. I hope there will also eventually be independant implementations and perhaps a gcc frontend. The zig project rejecting any AI generated contributions is greatly appreciated and one of the reasons I am considering its use at all.
I have written a few projects in zig, most notably some neat libraries.
zig-exre↗ is a zig library for regular expressions, using vaguely Thompson-esque nondeterministic automata encoded as state machines.
It used to be the fastest zig regex library, but I have not checked in a while. It still seems to be the only one that handles unicode though.
zig-ini↗ is a tokenizer for the INI file format for zig. It supports both the variant with and without semicolons.
zig-spoon↗ is a zig library for creating TUIs. Unlike other libraries, it provides low-level interfaces rather than high-level widgets. It had the best input parser of any zig terminal UI library last time I checked.
I have since abandoned the POSIX terminal as a target for "proper" applications development, however it might still be useful for some.
zomo↗ was a very simple pomodoro timer for the terminal. I created it to try out the technique only to discover it simply does not work for me. The program still works though, if you need it.
timeviz↗ was a visualizer for a custom, INI-based time tracking format I used to use in the past. A good example for an application created with zig-spoon.
ansiscape↗ draws procedurally generated landscapes to your terminal.