Comment by TiredOfLife
1 day ago
> or contributing to make the current language better
The people making Zig have said they don't want that.
1 day ago
> or contributing to make the current language better
The people making Zig have said they don't want that.
They also said that:
> Code origin was not even a factor [0]
> AI is entirely besides the point here. The changes in this Zig fork are not desirable to upstream for several reasons. [1]
So my view here is that besides AI policies to filter low value contributions and "contributor poker" [2] to attract contributors vs just contributions, a well thought of genious implementation aligned with the Zig roadmap instead of the "hacky implementation for a flashy headline" [1] would have made the cut.
But then again this entertaining drama will sadly get deprecated by mid 2027 as the datacenters will be churning out their own opusrust and clankzig.
[0] https://kristoff.it/blog/contributor-poker-and-ai/