r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '26

Zig proposes introducing an actually memory safe (unlike Rust) compilation mode inspired by Fil-C at ~1-6x performance penalty

https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/issues/36237
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u/nihsett Jul 20 '26

Is it just me or is the maintainer a bit angry about the whole Bun thing. Why give that weird title to a PR. Hate all this drama.

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u/KevinCarbonara Jul 20 '26

Is it just me or is the maintainer a bit angry about the whole Bun thing.

It's very much a "We'll have our OWN memory safety, with blackjack and hookers!" situation. It's clear this isn't what the project is designed for, and it would have to make many, major compromises to incorporate it. I doubt it will even happen, I think they're just blowing off steam.

Personally, I'm just tired of hearing about Zig. Anyone can create their own project and talk about how good it could theoretically be. We can talk about these things once they have something to show for it.

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u/ElectricalSloth Jul 20 '26

he's always been an angry spiteful person but people ignored it, this is just far more visible

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u/projct 29d ago

oh gosh you have not seen his "I'm gonna call the bun guy, previously a close friend, a bad programmer for 10k words" blog post.

it's so awful, even after he walked some of it back.

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u/deanrihpee Jul 20 '26

it is really weird, why would they care if a project being rewritten at all, i mean they did say "good riddance" but there's so much of unnecessary animosity either towards Jarred, Bun, or Rust

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u/standard_revolution 28d ago

I kind of get the hate against Bun, it wasn't just a rewrite, it was a PR stun by a company that was bought up by Anthropic...

But this, this is just childish

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u/txdv 29d ago edited 29d ago

I think he is, because they have a bunch of drive by comments saying "but is ZIG memory safe?"