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by jeltz 41 days ago
I don't see why they think it would work when the reason their patch set was rejected was because it was not correct, did not go in a direction the Zig authors were interested in and is also in an area where they are already working hard on improvements. It would have been much better if the bun team joined forces and helped out instead of vibe coding a broken PoC patch that never can get merged. Compilation speed is one of the current main focuses of Zig and changing the type system to make that possible was a big part of 0.16.

Anyone can hack up a quick PoC, even without LLMs, the hard part is writing code that is correct and maintainable.
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rdmsr0 41 days ago
Side note, but I think using LLMs like this to write PoCs in existing projects is actually a good idea to prove whatever you had in mind is feasible and worth it to pour time into. Obviously you need to not vibecode the entire thing once you're past that point though...
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wiseowise 41 days ago
> It would have been much better if the bun team joined forces and helped out instead of vibe coding a broken PoC patch that never can get merged

Bold of you to assume they have the expertise.

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merlindru 41 days ago
Bun folks routinely contribute to WebKit, and bun itself is an incredibly impressive project, so I don't think they're lacking expertise
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jeltz 41 days ago
I think they do. Building bun is a complex task and engineers who can do that should also be able to figure out how to help out with a compiler. It is just a matter of immersing yourself in the code and be willing to put in the hours and hard work. Sure, they may not be able to help out with designing the type resolution but there is other work which needs to be done that any skilled engineer can do.
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naasking 41 days ago
> It would have been much better if the bun team joined forces and helped out

Submitting patches is joining forces and helping out.

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dspillett 41 days ago
Submitting patches that are correct and match the project's desired standardsยน is joining forces and helping out.

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[1] And align with the project's direction. This part is of course much more subjective so could very easily be an honest misunderstanding of the situation.

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