Jul 10, 2026, 8:50 PMSeems like there's another reason not to care about Zig. Its dictator for life is toxic: https://andrewkelley.me/post/my-thoughts-bun-rust-rewrite.html
- Jul 10, 2026, 8:50 PM
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Fabio Valentinidecathorpe@mastodon.socialJul 10, 2026, 10:08 PM@ju this could definitely be less sour (all while claiming not to be sour) and use less hyperbole, but I don't think he's ... wrong? or am I misreading it?
- Jul 11, 2026, 1:33 AM
@decathorpe I mean the whole post is just a personal attack. And for what exactly? That his coding standard aren't met? For rumours of bad management? That he joined the community with "big beginner energy"? All while sponsoring the Zig foundation significantly while it was way less known.
- Fabio Valentinidecathorpe@mastodon.socialJul 11, 2026, 9:25 AM
@ju I agree, those parts were definitely unnecessary
as for the things that relate to the ZSF, just stopping to show up at scheduled meetings and silently canceling a rather big regular donation aren't exactly "nice" so I understand where the criticism comes from (while I don't agree with the form it took here)
- Jul 11, 2026, 9:42 AM
@decathorpe yeah we are in agreement there.
Jul 11, 2026, 5:49 AM@ju the judgement of “does not like slopwranglers and techbro grifters” == “toxic” is highly questionable
- Jul 11, 2026, 6:39 AM
@hsza publicly insulting people because you don't like the quality of the code they write (and yes, the LLM usage is only a side point of this post) is absolutely toxic in my opinion