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jraphyesterday at 11:45 AM2 repliesview on HN

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entropeyesterday at 2:09 PM

When accusing someone of "good looking lies", it would help to provide an example or two with an explanation of why you think they're lies (rather than mistakes, oversights or differences of opinion). Complaints that the post "subtly and misleadingly throws shade at Zig" are hard to accept without that kind of support.

joshuamortonyesterday at 1:02 PM

> Of course when you are the creator of Zig, that may feel quite unfair and you should highlight it.

Then highlight that, don't repeatedly insult someone. If Andrew thinks the same kind of ai-assisted improvement would be possible in Zig, and that avoiding the kinds of errors migrating to rust achieved would be possible in Zig, he should demonstrate it. And I don't necessarily mean rewriting all of Bun in "better-zig", but like, if you're going to say "this project is bad because it is badly maintained, not because the language has limitations" then demonstrate something to that effect.

The only technical detail I recall from Andrew's post is that zig has faster compile times, which may well be true but what do I care?