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New comment by Zakis1 in "My Software North Star"

Zakis1 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:44:07 +0000

Agree, the claim "secure because Rust" is wrong. But "more secure than if it were written in an unsafe language" is probably going to be true most of the time.

New comment by Zakis1 in "My Software North Star"

Zakis1 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:36:36 +0000

Agreed unfortunately, if Zigs whole selling point is meant to be a "nicer C" (and a much nicer DX than Rust because no fighting the borrow checker etc) - does that really matter in a world where an LLM is writing the code? I am not going to be fighting the borrow checker, the LLM is.

And as always, the response you'll hear is: but AI sucks/hallucinates/could never replace me etc... Just look at the progress LLM'S have made in the past few years, and extrapolate that to the next 10 or 20 years. I don't see how Zig makes sense if this is the trajectory the industry is going.

New comment by Zakis1 in "Zig: Build System Reworked"

Zakis1 — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:57:10 +0000

I completely agree. Zig has a nicer DX no doubt - no fighting the borrow checker etc. But if you are are writing software for other people they don't care about how nice your developer experience is, they only want the software to work correctly - and how can you guarantee that the software you wrote does what you expect it to do if it's not memory safe?

New comment by Zakis1 in "Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite"

Zakis1 — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:55:34 +0000

It's alarming how people instantly jump to conclusions that Bun is now "AI slop".

Bun has been almost entirely worked on by LLM's for ~6 months now, long before the Rust re-write (source: https://x.com/jarredsumner/status/2054525268296118363). It already has been proven that LLM's can maintain such codebases.

New comment by Zakis1 in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

Zakis1 — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:17:12 +0000

> When you rewrite a project in another language, it's for engineers to be able to maintain and further develop the project better

I don't think that is the case here. Bun is pretty much using AI to write all of it's code, with a human reviewing it. Zig exists as a language to provide a nice DX over C and Rust, not to be memory safe. If you are using an LLM to generate code, the DX benefits are removed and so then why would you ever choose Zig over Rust?