15:I[981,["658","static/chunks/658-a698693f56d0116a.js","183","static/chunks/183-6beeeb801c274aaa.js","474","static/chunks/app/%5Btype%5D/layout-631c4730b83c8223.js"],"Posts"] 16:T5a9,Hi HN, I built eth.zig -- a complete Ethereum client library in pure Zig with zero dependencies (no C bindings, no system libraries, just zig build).

It covers ABI encoding, RLP, secp256k1 ECDSA, Keccak-256, BIP-32/39/44 HD wallets, ERC-20/721 wrappers, JSON-RPC (HTTP + WebSocket), ENS, EIP-712, and Multicall3.

The interesting part: it beats Paradigm's alloy.rs (Rust) on 19 out of 26 benchmarks. ABI encoding is 1.92x faster, u256 division is 4x faster, Keccak-256 is 1.37x faster. alloy.rs wins on secp256k1 signing (precomputed EC tables) and a few paths where Rust's sol! macro generates specialized code.

What made this possible is Zig's comptime -- function selectors and event topics are computed at compile time with zero runtime cost. The entire crypto stack (secp256k1, Keccak-256, BIP-32/39/44) is pure Zig.

Docs: https://ethzig.org Repo: https://github.com/StrobeLabs/eth.zig Benchmarks: https://github.com/StrobeLabs/eth.zig/blob/main/bench/RESULT...

  Would love feedback, especially from Zig and Ethereum devs

17:T40d,Quick context: I'm building background job automation and keep hitting this pattern:

1. Job calls external API (Stripe, SendGrid, AWS) 2. API call succeeds 3. Job crashes before recording success 4. Job retries → calls API again → duplicate

Example: process refund, send email notification, crash. Retry does both again. Customer gets duplicate refund email (or worse, duplicate refund).

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