I wonder how much this work being pushed forward right now is a response to the Bun drama.

kristoff_it 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

None of it, we've been working on this stuff for a long time already, scroll the devlog backwards, you will find plenty of entries on that topic.

It's the opposite: people have become more receptive to communication about this work now that there's "drama" attached to it.

This post I co-authored with Andrew is from 2020. In it we announce the idea of getting rid of LLVM from the debug build pipeline and since then work has been steadily going forward, it's just not trivial to bootstrap a full compiler pipeline for all major targets, but we're finally getting there.

https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-new-relationship-llvm/

	▲	bcardarella 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm very glad to see the work, thank you for all of the efforts.

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cafebabbe 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There is absolutely no "Bun drama", there are just two projects with different goals and methodologies, mutually incompatible. All this thing is just a small bunch of bored, terminally-twitting people ...

In any case, I'm super glad for this milestone (and impressed!).

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mi_lk 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Some people really can’t operate without stirring unnecessary drama.

What if that’s true and what if that’s not true?

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dzbarsky 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

None? All of these things were in flight for a while and given Zigs anti-AI stance i think they wrote off Bun ever since the acquisition

	▲	dnautics 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		what anti-ai stance? i have multiple projects in zig that are pretty much written by AI, no problem.