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Zig creator calls Bun’s Claude Rust rewrite ‘unreviewed slop’ (www.theregister.com)

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*The Rustification of Bun#

Rewriting 500,000 lines of Zig into another language would be a gargantuan undertaking if done by hand. “A rewrite in another language would take a small team of engineers a full year. It would mean freezing bugfixes, security fixes or feature development for that time,” Sumner wrote.

Instead, Sumner went with Claude. He spun up about 50 dynamic Claude Code workflows, reaching a peak of about 1,300 lines of code per minute and generating over a million lines of Rust code. The job took 11 days and cost about $165,000 at API pricing. Claude Fable did most of the heavy lifting.

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[–] ISO@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Zig is too irrelevant, both technically and adoption wise, for anyone actually relevant to be fighting over it. The number of notable Zig projects went from 3.5 to 2.5 recently 😉. Hell, Zig probably has more adoption as a build tool, than as an actual implementation language (I would take it over CMake any day of the month tbf).

Hell, WIP languages experimenting with effect systems and/or similar next-gen concepts will probably hit v1.0 before Andrew thinks Zig is ready for a v1.0, which is in his forte, but no one should be holding their breath if they are not aware of some history and personality details. Since Andrew tagged Zig v0.1, the Rust project designed the edition mechanism, introduced three inter-compatible editions (four if you include 2015), and managed on-schedule ~66 1.n minor releases, and in the process grew into a semi-popular language impacting almost every corner of the industry.