Add zigx to GUI

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What

Add marler8997/zigx to GUI, as the last entry of the list, next to Aransentin/ZWL.

zigx is an X11 client library for Zig. It implements the X protocol directly (the build links neither libX11 nor XCB) and covers connecting to a display, authentication, windows, drawing, input and fonts. The repository has many runnable examples (hello, draw, input, text, fontviewer, present and others).

Maintenance: created 2020-08-22, last commit 2026-08-18, 320 commits, 151 stars, MIT licence, not archived. It builds with Zig 0.15.2 and 0.16 (initial 0.16 support landed on 2026-07-28). There are no GitHub releases.

Checklist

• Entry is actively maintained and useful
• Follows the awesome list style guide
• Added to the end of the existing list (not inserted in the middle)
• Ran make all locally before opening this PR

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added a GUI library listing with a brief overview and examples of windowing, drawing, input, and fonts.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The README adds marler8997/zigx to the GUI section. The entry describes its direct X protocol support and examples for windowing, drawing, input, and fonts.

Changes

GUI project listing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Add zigx to GUI list README.md	The GUI list gains an entry describing zigx as an X11 client library that speaks the X protocol directly, with examples for windowing, drawing, input, and fonts.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to bd3d5

The added listing accurately describes zigx and its examples. No material merge risk was identified.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to bd3d5

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: README.md

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — README.md (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in README.md: Added the zigx project to the GUI list, describing its direct X protocol support and examples for windowing, drawing, input, and fonts.

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title, “Add zigx to GUI,” clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding zigx to the GUI list.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
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