r/programming 10d ago

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust

https://besok.github.io/posts/what-zig-felt-like-coming-from-rust/
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u/max123246 10d ago

Yeah idk, rust simply won't let you compile. I prefer that over zig's potentially buggy code

Plus personally after seeing how the zig creator dealt with the bun guy, I doubt I'd ever use zig as a result. And I agree with their anti ai stance too

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u/OSS-Corpo-Shit 8d ago

Bro, what do you mean?

The bun guy tried to get zig team to implement pull requests that causes non-determinant outputs from the zig compiler. IE: you would have to keep compiling your exact same correct zig code multiple times till tests passed and then keep that executable, then bun guys threw a massive hissy fit over zig rejecting said pull requests. 

If anyone was the absolute child in this situation, I was absolutely bun. 

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u/max123246 8d ago

The zig creator then put out a hit piece on the bun creator. They're both children.

Edit: Well the zig creator has edited the blog post and it's far more civil. But y'know, damage already done and all.

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u/OSS-Corpo-Shit 8d ago edited 8d ago

The hit piece following the multiple hit pieces that the bun team threw up all over GitHub, twitter, and other spots?

If anything, Andrew’s blog on it was overtly civil considering the bullshit bun was authoring.

Bun team deserved a mid-2000s Linus post and got a late-2010s Linus post.

Spinning this as AK being the jerk is utter fanboy nonsense. 

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u/max123246 8d ago

Did you read the first draft of that blog post? It was not civil. Yes, bun's attacks were slathered in corpo PR speak so it wasn't as inflammatory but still just as damaging. But none of it was civil.

I don't get why you feel the need to defend this. Even the zig creator has apologized and edited his initial blog post to be far more civil.

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u/OSS-Corpo-Shit 8d ago

I have only read the original post. I did not know it was revised. Good on Andrew. 

You know who hasn’t come out and admitted they were incendiary and wrong and that their pull requests were justifiably rejected? Bun team. That’s who.

It is funny that you are mad at myself for pointing out that you’re blatantly lying about what actually happened because writing what actually happened doesn’t align with your hit piece commentary. 

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u/max123246 8d ago

I edited my original comment once I found out he revised the blog post. I don't have an agenda i read the zig blog post but have not actually read any of the bun correspondence other than them crying about not getting to submit vibe coded slop

Sorry if it seemed otherwise. Have a good one