> Thus far most of the buzz and marketing has been entirely negative from people who are against AI.

To me it seems like quite a lot of it is also by people who spent years maintaining a codebase just to have the metaphorical rug be pulled out from under their feet, and feel that a migration like this might be kind of disrespectful (how many of the people that have gotten good at Zig and know the codebase will find the switch over to Rust easy)? Or in some cases, that it's just bad engineering - instead of releasing it alongside the main project and focusing on gradually getting parity over months, it just got merged into the main branch.

On a more practical note, however - if you get acquired by a company that gives you almost unlimited usage of tools that might help you migrate to a language, that 3 years down the line will lead to a better codebase than today, then I guess it also makes sense to take that chance.

And of course, you get a lot of people who are opposed to AI on principle, as you said.