Her school did not have adequate resources to handle these students, so they always had multiple students with severe behavioral issues that should have been in a dedicated classroom with a special education trained teacher, but were just in regular teachers' classes. Naturally, the teachers were burnt out from working with too many challenging kids they were not trained to take care of and the other students had worse learning outcomes.

You're right, other things constant, this would not make sense. But this is a strawman. Zig has fast compilation on average compared to systems languages with more automatic memory management, like Rust. In addition, Bun's fork is based on 0.14 Zig, while 0.16 has become much faster.

Take a look at this post by one of Zig's core maintainers explaining why Zig doesn't want to upstream any changes from the Bun fork: https://ziggit.dev/t/bun-s-zig-fork-got-4x-faster-compilatio....

In short, the Bun fork introduces non-deterministic compilation errors, a terrible problem for a language and its compiler to have. Zig just made changes to type resolution in 0.16 specifically to allow them to implement parallel semantic analysis, but properly without the bug the Bun fork has.

In addition, they have chosen to spend their time building the self-hosted backend and perfecting incremental compilation, which will have orders of magnitude more benefits to compile times than. Matthew already demonstrates a 4x speedup, what Bun claims to achieve, using the self-hosted backend, and 300x speedups with incremental compilation on a large project (Zig itself).

I am sure it is frustrating for Jarred to not get his patch in, but he was rebuffed for good reason. Bun's fork may have worked for them but many people, including the Zig team, would rather Zig do things properly than introduce bugs and tech debt to make flashy headlines.

You're right, a rewrite is in existence, and whether it is good enough to be used or expand upon is what is being considered. I don't think that changes the fact that languages don't live or die by whether or not 1 large project using them continues using them. Especially a language like Zig which has taken plenty time making breaking changes. They know this is par for the course.

>I wonder if that's the mentality that got them in this situation in the first place.

I highly doubt it. To my knowledge, the only "why" Jarred has given is frustration with memory issues. Speculated reasons I see are: 1. Anthropic wants a rewrite to a language with a more favorable AI contribution policy, to avoid bad press by acquiring a framework written in a language that is skeptical of AI code quality. 2. Rust is more stable and a better target for AI-assisted programming or entire vibe coding. 3. Bun is upset Zig does not want to merge their fork into main.

Focusing on the issue Jarred gave as why he started the rewrite, I don't see how Zig got themselves into the situation at all. Zig was always upfront that it aimed to be a modern C: simple language, powerful modern features, and excellent compatibility with all things C. While it certainly has much better behavior concerning memory safety and undefined behavior, it has never aimed for Rust or GC level memory safety.

It's not like Jarred has been begging the Zig devs to implement language changes to make Bun development easier. Zig was always upfront that you will have to manage memory manually, and that allows for operator error. I think Jarred is in this situation because he wants to be, simply. He works for Anthropic, probably has no limit on how many tokens he spends, and may have access to their most powerful internal models like Mythos. I would guess he pointed agents at this problem and let them go, because why not? He has likely has no opportunity cost.

But Bun has open issues and bugs. The test suite doesn't tell us whether it has introduced many new bugs, solved existing ones the test suite doesn't catch, or anything else. Not to mention, the rewrite is 960K lines that nobody understands. How long will it take for the Rust version to be better, and be understood as well as its current maintainers understand the Zig version?

Having a project consider a rewrite isn't so big a deal. Zig has been designed from the ground up with a vision, and isn't worried about taking a while to create a stable API to achieve that vision. The self-hosted backend shows how incredibly fast incremental compilation is when the language is built for it ground-up. Compared to other languages that implement weaker forms of incremental compilation it isn't even close.

I don't think the Zig team is concerned at all.

In addition, a core Zig developer has explained why the PR was rejected, because it would introduce non-deterministic bugs into the compiler, just to achieve a speedup Zig is already gaining thanks to recent work on the self-hosted backend and incremental compilation, which are far more general as well.

In addition, the link in the comment you replied to explains why the PRs Bun opened to Zig would have lowered the quality of the compiler and how Zig has achieved even greater speedups, with more widely applicable features like incremental compilation and the self-hosted backend.

[0] https://ziggit.dev/t/bun-s-zig-fork-got-4x-faster-compilatio...

When people talk about immigrants in this context, I don't think they mean people from the US, but lower socioeconomic asylum-seekers and refugees etc. from the middle-east.

It definitely seems their economy was built on European labor, which I believe the vast majority of European countries were.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Switzerland#Pe...

Yeah, this whole discussion is based on assuming human genetics. Every animal, without any resistance training, will develop an amount of muscle within some range. This can be massive, like for gorillas. Perhaps someday we will have gene editing that allows us to have the muscle building genes of gorillas, so we can all bench 1,000lbs with no training.

I wonder, do gorillas possess the mechanism for stimulating muscle growth via resistance training? How strong could one be with a dedicated training plan and coach?

But yes, if you never train close to failure you will not grow, not past beginner gains, unless you take steroids.

To increase your 1RM at the most optimal pace, yes you need to specifically train the movement so that you can benefit from improved technique and neurological adaptation. But if I do tricep, pec, and front delt isolation exercises at higher reps, to failure, and see significant hypertrophy in these muscles, my bench press will be stronger, other things constant.

EDIT: I was also able to connect to my solar panel gateway trivially from the CLI just a few days ago.

In addition, every seller of a good/service could do the same. They can't all increase prices to extract the full $xxxx a month. There are much more complex dynamics at play then just "landlords will raise rent enough to extract the full UBI benefit."

I think the more technologically literate a person is, the more wary they are of unfettered access to it for children. Hence, preferring a stationary desktop where use can be supervised.