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6/28/2026

Update on Zen — we now have a package ecosystem
Short summary
Zen programming language reaches v1.1.1 with production-ready package management: CLI tools for publishing and installing packages from a GitHub-hosted registry with JWT authentication and semantic versioning support. Language improvements include struct literals, POSIX regex matching, binary file I/O, FFI bindings to C functions, and 162 stdlib utilities. The open-source project welcomes community contributions.
- •Full package management system with CLI (zen publish, zen install) and GitHub-hosted registry
- •162 stdlib functions plus new language features: structs, regex, file I/O, C FFI bindings
- •Open-source and actively seeking community feedback and contributors
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