"The Bun team has already forked Zig, claiming a four-times improvement in debug compilation times thanks to the use of parallel code generation with LLVM on macOS and Linux."
"The reality of LLM-based contributions has been mostly negative for us, from an increase in background noise due to worthless drive-by PRs full of hallucinations to insane 10,000 line long first time PRs."
"The changes in this Zig fork are not desirable to upstream, citing that their parallelized semantic analysis implementation will exhibit non-deterministic behavior."
Jarred Sumner has released a Zig-to-Rust porting guide, suggesting a possible shift from Zig for Bun, a JavaScript runtime. While there is no commitment to a rewrite, Sumner expresses curiosity about the outcome. Bun has forked Zig, achieving significant improvements in debug compilation times. However, Zig's strict no-AI policy prevents upstreaming these changes. Concerns about the fork's non-deterministic behavior and the focus on incremental compilation over parallelized analysis have been raised by core Zig team members. Additionally, breaking changes in Zig complicate its reliability for major projects.
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