[zuzululu]

I think this is a major problem with Zig in that they've cornered themselves into not utilizing AI and have attracted anti-AI absolutist crowd that is going to be a major hinderance.

As a Rust user, AI has put Rust easily in the hands of developers who were previously intimidated by it. I've learned a ton about Rust simply by fiddling with LLMs and asking questions to other Rust devs who don't really care whether AI is used.

As soon as you give into the mob rule, your existence is going to depend entirely on the ideology of the crowd and you lose the ability to adapt and remain competitive. ex) "modern audience" games from large studios.

[nafizh]

You are free to use AI to write Zig code just not use AI to write code for Zig. In fact, many people already do build software with zig written by AI. Check out rockorager's github.

[dpatterbee]

This is not true in any meaningful way. The most widely-used zig project (Ghostty) is very welcoming of AI contributions, and the lead developer of the project uses it heavily.