I haven't slept properly in days. I'm building a package manager for C. And I regret nothing.

#c #rust #go #opensource

4 hours of sleep a night for the past few days. ForgeZero went from 1.0 to 1.9.0 in that time. This isn't work anymore. This is obsession.

Let me be real with you. Why would anyone spend their nights fighting linkers, allocators, and milliseconds?

Because I refuse to let C development die.

I'm obsessed with low-level programming. That feeling when it's just you and the bare metal. No fat abstractions. No lazy runtimes holding your hand. No GC randomly deciding now is a great time to pause everything. Just your logic, the CPU, and the truth.

C is an art form. It's honest. It's foundational. And the tooling around it is, frankly, a disaster.

Setting up dependencies in C feels like archaeology. The build systems look like they were designed to punish you. New devs touch it once and run back to npm. I get it. But I think we can fix this.

That's what ForgeZero 2.0: NEXUS is about.

What's coming

📦 A package manager that doesn't suck — fz pm

fz pm add and you're done. Pull C libraries and ASM modules the same way you'd import anything in a modern language. No more hunting down tarballs. No more copy-pasting compiler flags from Stack Overflow threads from 2009. No more dependency hell.

Just: point at a repo, let ForgeZero do the rest.

🔌 Compiler-agnostic core

Clang, GCC, NASM, FASM — whatever your stack is, ForgeZero wraps it. A couple lines of config and it knows how to talk to your toolchain. Exotic target hardware? Still fine.

🧠 Incremental builds that actually work

Stop rebuilding the entire project because you fixed a typo in a comment. NEXUS does deep header dependency analysis — it sees the full dep tree and only recompiles what actually changed. Your CPU will thank you.