Comment by frangonf

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/