As part of the Xata launch week, we are introducing pgzx, an open-source framework for developing PostgreSQL extensions written in Zig. It provides a set of utilities (e.g. error handling, memory allocators, wrappers) as well as a build and development environment to simplify integrating with the Postgres codebase. Zig is described on its website as a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal and reusable software. Zig is a new language (pre 1.0), but it ...