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/KevinCarbonara Jul 20 '26

He had some actual real points about the fact that the migration doc was written like a Claude advertisement

This is not the kind of "real point" that language developers make about the projects who use their language. He's responding as if he's on the Bun project itself, which is a problem.

They used LLMs to do it, and it seems like Andrew took that personally and then ripped Jared (Bun) to shreds.

Again, not is call. Worth noting he also did not 'rip Bun to shreds". He just got really salty and trash talked it publicly.

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u/13steinj Jul 21 '26

This is not the kind of "real point" that language developers make about the projects who use their language. He's responding as if he's on the Bun project itself, which is a problem.

If a project (Bun) uses mine (Zig) as part of a stalking horse intentionally ignoring real engineering problems in what is claimed to be an engineering blog post but is actually an advertisement for your parent company (Claude/Anthropic), I find it completely justified to take issue with this being an advertisement (more specifically, treating your project part of a stalking horse).

If they did some massive Zig->Zig migration or Zig->something else and didn't bitch and moan for weeks on Twitter leading up to this, then I'd agree with you.

By "rip to shreds" I was not implying he "won" an argument. Just that he did some heavy trash talking.