Comment by internet2000
6 days ago
Yeah but now they got the fame of the language that fumbled the ball because of an overly onerous anti-AI stance.
6 days ago
Yeah but now they got the fame of the language that fumbled the ball because of an overly onerous anti-AI stance.
They haven't fumbled anything. One person has used AI to vibe code a rewrite of a Zig program in another language. Zig didn't gain popularity due to Bun, last I checked Bun doesn't even mention it is written in Zig on the homepage. Zig is appreciate for major improvements over C, while being simple and concise.
In addition, a core Zig developer has explained why the PR was rejected, because it would introduce non-deterministic bugs into the compiler, just to achieve a speedup Zig is already gaining thanks to recent work on the self-hosted backend and incremental compilation, which are far more general as well.
It's been repeated many times that the rejection of the Bun PR was unrelated to their AI-policy. It's also not clear they've "fumbled the ball" given how many projects are complaining about slop PRs.
I think it would help if Zig put out a statement on their actual AI policy, regardless of whether they’d be repeating something that should already be known.
As often happens, the online discourse has, for some reason, decided that this was an anti-AI stance, while - as far as I understand - the problem was simply that the PR had problems, which lead to Bun forking Zig.
They did: https://kristoff.it/blog/contributor-poker-and-ai/
Lol. What a goofy take.