Is there a way to be informed when a new Zig release appears? I find no syndication feed on ziglang.org, I find no announcement mailing list, the News category here is too chatty.
Maybe watch the Codeberg repository?—I think it can notify you when a new tag/release is out, dunno.
If anything, you have things like the Zig Discord server et al.
I know you’re just trying to be helpful, but suggesting a closed source, proprietary, unofficial, third party platform as a way to find out about releases really rubs me the wrong way.
There is an RSS link on News ⚡ Zig Programming Language
Looks like it’s missing the standard syndication HTML. Good idea to add that.
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suggesting a closed source, proprietary, unofficial, third party platform as a way to find out about releases really rubs me the wrong way.
Fair point, I don’t wrong you for that. I was thinking about RSS but I went with Discord because though I hate it as well—the majority of people uses it.
No, thanks, for Discord, I prefer to stay out of big US capitalist platforms when possible.
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I prefer to stay out of big US capitalist platforms when possible.
oh—good 
Yes, but there are many other things in it than new releases. Well, I’ll use it, anyway, at least I won’t be surprised to discover 0.16 months after its release.
For Codeberg, there is a syndication feed, but of all commits. I do not find a way to be informed only of new tags/releases.
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Hmm, Forgejo (Codeberg’s backend) provides separate RSS feeds for Releases, but Zig has the Releases unit disabled — understandably so because they handle most of what that unit provides via their own Download ⚡ Zig Programming Language.
Maybe the download page would deserve its own RSS? I know there’s already the JSON version, but feed readers won’t accept that.
Oh, actually, Forgejo/Codeberg also provides RSS for tags, look! https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/tags.rss
(I just tried adding the .rss suffix to the tags URL and it worked 
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