> Anthropic is not in the programming language market;

Did we just read the same blog post? I see no assertion in it that Anthropic is in the programming language market, rather that this rewrite was a marketing opportunity for them they were happy to lean into.

> For context, I'm using Codex and have no interest in either Zig or Rust, so just observing this drama from the sidelines.

The latter part of the post is much less about Anthropic and more about AI coding in general so I’d say it’s still very relevant to your interests.