I agree with your point of view in general, but "having tests" doesn't mean "having great tests". If I rewrite my code and give the binary to our clients and they don't see any difference or bug, well, that means the rewrite passed the ultimate test. In fact, the percentage of our clients that care about implementation details (such as PL) is precisely 0%.

Please stop thinking about the kids on the internet. But here's a brief list of things you must work on with higher urgency:

- taxing more large corporations,

- taxing more ultra-rich people,

- funding EU-made (open source) tech and infrastructure,

- let parents spend more time with their kids so they can actually protect their offspring and keep them safe from predators, more than any stupid law you think you can devise can do,

- more trains.

More interestingly: will we need to care about the code at all, at that point?

If I had a codebase with lots of tests and asked someone else to rewrite it to another language passing the same test suite, I honestly wouldn't expect a great quality job.

I say this because it happened 3 times in the company I work for: we conducted experiments by tasking different companies to rewrite the same code in another language. All of them passed (most) of the tests, but code quality was low. If the job is a black box, rely on the I/O to determine quality, not the inner workings.

Honestly, Zig community seems the most bitter for whatever reason, while on the Rust side it seems to me that are simply overstating how great the language is and are pushy in trying to convince the other of their ideas.

If this goes through, we can all take SWE lessons from it, but I think the communities will suffer.

Zig is a very interesting LOW level language, but honestly I think it should be considered for what it is: a better C. I don't think it fits for anything that someone would have written in C++, Java, Haskell or C#. Instead, Rust is competitive with all of these languages when it comes to safety, abstractions and speed. And also C and Zig itself.

Zig has a couple very interesting ideas that make it stand out: comptime and the zig build system.

Alas, Zig is still far from being stable. Rust came out to the public in 2012 and became stable (1.0) in 2015. Zig came out to the public in 2016, and it's 10 years now and someone says it's still years away from 1.0.

So, while rust took 3 years of public development to become stable, zig is taking 10/15 years. I love the language, but TBH I don't see a great future ahead, especially with LLMs advancements that can use safer languages to do the same work. There's no point in risking more memory bugs when the effort for writing code is the same.

Personally, I find this experiment interesting and I’m curious to see how it develops. Writing idiomatic rust requires a shift in mindset, so it’ll be worth watching how well LLMs adapt to that over time.

This is the issue: Israeli settlers are getting weapons and money from the government (backed by the US) to systematically infringe human rights, in particular of Palestinian families.

People should stop to think that Israel is a democratic and civil country: it is not. Proofs are plenty.