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Zig v0.17.0

267 points · 208 comments · ErenayDev

jabedude · 1790975528 · focus · HN ↗
How is Zig doing as a project? I remember they took a hard line against AI
1. abc42 · 1790975852 · focus · HN ↗
  It looks like they're spending 5 months what should be a 1 month job these days.
  1. onlyrealcuzzo · 1790975988 · focus · HN ↗
    Filed a compiler bug related to dwarf tables that screws up debugging and line of code coverage that they completely ignored, just because I mentioned that I had every LLM check it to confirm it's a bug, since all I know is what kcov and every coverage tool generates incorrect coverage data for my repo, for 100% certain.
    bendmorris · 1790976655 · focus · HN ↗
    Sounds like you violated the clearly stated project rules and admitted to it. Are you surprised that they're not engaging with you?
    IshKebab · 1790976979 · focus · HN ↗
    Wow I thought surely they wouldn't object to using AI to confirm bugs, but they really do.
    Tbf I guess as a popular open source project not using AI to fix bugs, they probably already have more open bugs than they can ever fix so it doesn't really help them for people to find more.
    I would imagine his bug was actually ignored just because Zig has 2700 open bugs, rather than some AI policy violation.
    bendmorris · 1790977238 · focus · HN ↗
    Claude Code has 13.4k open bugs: <a href="https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues
    Show me a popular open source project that doesn't have a large number of open issues and I'll show you one that has a triage bot auto-close them.
    esafak · 1790977628 · focus · HN ↗
    Some have both, despite using an auto-close bot! OC is at 4.6K open and 24K closed issues. <a href="https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues
    IshKebab · 1791016999 · focus · HN ↗
    Gotta admit it's weird that they haven't set up Claude to fix them! Tbf my threshold for "AI now writes good enough code" was Astra or Opus 5.5 and they only just released that.

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