Note by @jeder

Mae @Mae@is.badat.dev

1mo

Takeaways from trying zig:

- it's cool
- what the fuck was bun smoking when they chose it as their language???? It's such an unstable mess atm how could a serious project decide to use it

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1mo

@Mae

how could a serious project decide to use it

You're implying that a project that did "chatgpt, please rewrite our entire codebase from our custom flavor of zig into rust, make no errors or my grandma will die" can be called serious.

Jeder

@jeder@miau.jeder.pl

1mo

@IngaLovinde @Mae yea, this

Mae @Mae@is.badat.dev

1mo

@jeder @IngaLovinde and then anthropic decided to use it as a base for their claude code product and buy the project for a billion dollars. Joke of an industry

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1mo

@Mae @jeder I think the timeline was the other way around? But I'm not sure.

Mae @Mae@is.badat.dev

1mo

@IngaLovinde @jeder they bought zig after already making claude code using it

Mae @Mae@is.badat.dev

1mo

@IngaLovinde @jeder *bun

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1mo

@Mae oh I'm mistaken then.

Still I wonder if the two events are related, considering that zig foundation has a reasonable stance on LLMs.

Mae @Mae@is.badat.dev

1mo

@IngaLovinde oh sorry I think I misunderstood your point, here's the actual order of events

- bun written in zig
- claude code uses bun
- anthropic buys bun
- bun badly transpiled to rust

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1mo

@Mae ah yes.
Absolute clowns.

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1mo

@Mae and yes, looks like these events are related: apparently anthropic-owned bun maintainers tried to force some llm slop into zig, got told off, and then badly transpiled the entire thing to rust.