Re:Zig v0.17.0
by agentultra on Friday October 02, 2026 @05:31PM
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They seem to be doing fine. Tigerbeetle and Ghostty are two projects that continue to do well and are written in Zig. The foundation’s funding also seems to be doing well. They are continuing to make releases.
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Re:Zig v0.17.0
by triyambakam on Friday October 02, 2026 @08:04PM
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Ghostty is a strange example though because Mitchell is very keen on agentic engineering.
Strange in what way? Mitchell has also stated that he reviews every line of code that goes into Ghostty so I don't think its quite the same as the Bun rewrite.
He can say that … but after reviewing the 1000th PR from a LLM and only finding minor issues that really go down to subjective taste, I think he may start to reconsider that.
Re:Zig v0.17.0
by surgical_fire on Saturday October 03, 2026 @04:30AM
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One day I may get there, but even for minor PRs I constantly find important issues that I need to intervene.
Really, even after a LLM has gone through a review and fixed issues found? I almost never see anything relevant since around Opus 5 came out, and now with Fable and Opus 5.5 whatever I think is wrong is almost certainly right.
Re:Zig v0.17.0
by surgical_fire on Saturday October 03, 2026 @01:04PM
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On my small personal projects I seldom find any mistakes. I use Chinese models on those. GLM, DeepSeek, MiMo.
At work I use Claude, but it is a considerably larger and quite complex codebase. I use LLMs a lot, but it is a common weekly occurrence for me to correct misconceptions, bugs, or overengineering from Opus/Sonnet (Opus plans and reviews, Sonnet implements).