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Re:Zig: Build System Reworked by geodel on Saturday May 30, 2026 @10:34AM (#48336670)
> The fact of the matter is one of the biggest projects that used Zig thought that the devX was so bad that they opted to rewrite their entire 1M LOC project into a different language.

That is not the fact of matter. The fact is it got bought by Anthropic. And in larger scheme of things Bun is one example Claude capabilities of translation. And even if doesn't work, it just a part of Claude desktop stack so still have millions of installs.

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Re:Zig: Build System Reworked by NewsaHackO on Saturday May 30, 2026 @11:13AM (#48337121)
Not really, if it doesn’t work then it will hurt their flagship desktop app’s stability, which would negatively affect their placing in an already cutthroat AI arms. Claude Code is the few business asset that Claude has the least moat compared to other providers( even open source). They can’t afford to be sloppy and use a buggy JS engine.
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Re:Zig: Build System Reworked by geodel on Saturday May 30, 2026 @03:45PM (#48339923)
Huh, I don't know which world you live in. In my world trillion dollars companies regularly release absolute crap of the software that hardly affects their industry usage or popularity.

In case anyone is not following the AI tool's biggest growth is in enterprises. And usability, quality or stability is measured very differently there compared to individual users. In my last 20 years of experience of using enterprise software and tools being third rate is never any issue.

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