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Ray Myers wrote up the Bun rewrite and the fight around it. It's emotional in places, but there's real signal in it about how agentic work is sold versus how it's done, and one review technique worth stealing.
Simon Willison wrote up a summary of Zig's policy on LLM contribution this morning, suggesting that Zig can afford it because it has PR oversupply and downstream users wealthy enough to fork the project at need. Yet: most communities adopting the same policy don't share those conditions.
Zig 0.16 is a significant release that breaks a lot of existing code on purpose. Major I/O abstractions have been deleted and redesigned, the type system has been overhauled for better ergonomics, and the toolchain continues its march toward self-hosting. Worth a look even if you're not a Zig developer, because this is what a language looks like when it's still willing to be wrong on the way to being right.