47
Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub & Why Zig Isn’t 1.0 - Andrew Kelley Explains (www.youtube.com)
submitted 4 days ago by Kissaki@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
7 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Andrew Kelley quit his job in 2018 to build a programming language. Eight years later, Zig powers Ghostty, TigerBeetle and Uber's cross-compilation. It's top 5 most admired on Stack Overflow. There's just one thing missing: 1.0. Andrew Kelley explains why.

Vitaly talked to Andrew about:

  • Why Zig has no 1.0 after a decade, and why that's deliberate
  • Why Zig left GitHub
  • Why Zig banned AI from Zig
  • What makes Zig better than C (and why every other C replacement failed)
  • Andrew’s take on Open Source

It's a long interview, but I found it very interesting and worth it.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] TehPers@beehaw.org 1 points 2 days ago

Bun specifically called out TigerStyle. Given that they were responding to this article, it's not a surprise they defended TigerBeetle.

All it takes is one internet search with the words "zig style guide" to find countless examples to pull from online. The Bun devs are entirely to blame for choosing not to create or follow one, and that decision, if I had to guess, stems from their refusal to do any actual software development themselves and instead rely on LLMs to do everything for them.

Maybe they could have asked robobun to open a PR to add a style guide?

[-] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago

All it takes is one internet search with the words “zig style guide” to find countless examples to pull from online.

"Countless"? You should be able to find, say three style guides that talk about how to prevent memory errors then right? Because my one search didn't find any.

this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2026
47 points (94.3% liked)

Programming

27744 readers
383 users here now

Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!

Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.

Hope you enjoy the instance!

Rules

Rules

  • Follow the programming.dev instance rules
  • Keep content related to programming in some way
  • If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos

Wormhole

Follow the wormhole through a path of communities !webdev@programming.dev

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
snowe@programming.dev
Ategon@programming.dev
UlrikHD@programming.dev
bugsmith@programming.dev
Spyro@programming.dev