Zig is a great low-level language. It's much better than C, while not being so much larger as e.g. Rust or C++. AFAICT Zig does well in embedded development, and should continue to do so. Note that Zig is not even 1.0 yet.
replyYeah but now they got the fame of the language that fumbled the ball because of an overly onerous anti-AI stance.
replyThey 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.
replyIn 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.
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replyIt'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.
replyI 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.
replyAs 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.
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Lol. What a goofy take.
replyFor most use cases I can’t imagine why you’d make the effort to move off C and not just go all the way to Rust.
replyThese tools let you get a massive codebase functional in 6 days. But, presumably, there's no better language to target than Rust (in terms of safety/performance), and therefore the rest of time can be spent making the birthed-in-6-days codebase better.
replyBut the author said "the code truly works, passing the test suite on Linux and soon other platforms" which just sounds really wise.
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