[darkstarsys]

As a heavy AI-assisted open source code creator (and someone with 40+ years of dev experience), this seems wrong-headed to me. I think it is an excellent policy, as they say, to "value contributors over their contributions," but this policy excludes all potential contributors who use the latest tools. It will eventually doom zig to a smaller "artisanal" pool of contributors, rather than welcoming newbies and helping them become better open-source developers.

[simonw]

Presumably Zig are OK with that. For their particular project - a brand new programming language and compiler - a small pool of artisanal developers is likely preferable to a large pool of LLM-assisted developers who don't have as deep an understanding of how everything works.

There are plenty of less stringent projects for people who to get better at open source to contribute to.

[faitswulff]

> It will eventually doom zig to a smaller "artisanal" pool of contributors

“Artisanal” and “Zig” are just about synonymous