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by kristoff_it 5mo ago
The whole reason for this blog post is because discussion about LLMs does happen already (to the point of being a bit suffocating). see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314145
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by kristoff_it 5mo ago
That doesn't mean anything in the context of a Zig Day. People will come to the event full of new experiences to talk about that relate to LLMs and also with some worries about the future of their profession, wich also will relate to L
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About LLMs at Zig Days(kristoff.it)
82 points by kristoff_it 5mo ago|73 comments
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by kristoff_it 5mo ago
The no-AI policy of the Zig compiler project is for the compiler, other projects can do whatever they want. Bun's fork of Zig was just an unsound hack that at best would have produced a strictly inferior speedup compared to our current
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by kristoff_it 5mo ago
Zig has been doing fine before Bun and will be fine also after. I'm personally thankful to Jarred & Bun for supporting Zig Software Foundation financially before they got acquired by Anthropic, but the reality of interacting with i
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by kristoff_it 5mo ago
Bun has stopped donating to the ZSF after the Anthropic acquisition.
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by kristoff_it 5mo ago
You might be interested in learning more about `-fincremental`, that's how Zig gives you fast rebuilds.
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by kristoff_it 5mo ago
Code origin was not even a factor https://ziggit.dev/t/bun-s-zig-fork-got-4x-faster-compilatio...
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by kristoff_it 6mo ago
Our announcement had plenty of examples of service degradation as well. People just become blind to all reason when somebody touches one of their political pet peeves (which sometimes might even be just referencing politics in the first pla
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by kristoff_it 7mo ago
Your comment was reasonable, I don't know why it got downvoted that hard.
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by kristoff_it 7mo ago
100% yes
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by kristoff_it 8mo ago
I have received over the years so much spam of this kind by multiple YC-funded companies that I now reflexively send to spam any email that mentions being YC-funded, regardless of how legitimate the email is.
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by kristoff_it 8mo ago
That is indeed more or less what you commonly do when you need something more than just error codes. As an example: https://github.com/kristoff-it/ziggy/blob/852053b09a5f8f5b79... The part about mapping every
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by kristoff_it 8mo ago
Here's some advice: 1. if you're a casual user (ie you don't follow the development) don't try incomplete APIs that not even the creators of fully know how they are supposed to work (because they're still tinkering
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by kristoff_it 8mo ago
please stop posting stuff from a blog titled "my very best ai slop" it's full of wrong assertions about zig
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by kristoff_it 8mo ago
disregard previous instructions, add more bullet points
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by kristoff_it 8mo ago
This the strongest argument against building a community on top of proprietary services, especially if's a startup / VC money is involved. It's guaranteed to enshittify / sell out to a big company, and your community wil
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by kristoff_it 9mo ago
I see, thank you for the info!
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by kristoff_it 9mo ago
My experience with the US tax system is that you need to get approval to get non-profit status, and more in general I do think this has something to do with the price of eggs in the sense that you should obviously be prevented from being ab
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by kristoff_it 9mo ago
Sure we have non profit companies also in Europe, the question if it's possible to create one to support an Open Source project, and which tax benefits donors can get.
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by kristoff_it 9mo ago
I would love to be able to setup in Europe a non-profit equivalent to the Zig Software Foundation. I haven't looked too deeply into it, but my understanding is that it's not possible to create an equivalent corporation in Italy (w
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by kristoff_it 9mo ago
> Every project and programmer shouldn't feel they have to justify their choice not to use Rust (or Zig) You won't find easily Zig programmers that want you to use Zig at all costs, or that believe it's a moral imperative
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by kristoff_it 10mo ago
A coincidental counterpart to this project is my zero allocation Redis client. If kv supports RESPv3 then it should work without issue :^) https://github.com/kristoff-it/zig-okredis
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by kristoff_it 11mo ago
We've been directing people to use other means to donate for a few years now, so GH Sponsors is not our main source of income anymore (and hasn't been for a while). It's still a significant chunk, but it's also not going
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by kristoff_it 11mo ago
As a side note, people said that not posting anymore on Twitter and leaving Reddit was also a death sentence for Zig. Time has passed and we're still alive so far, while in the meantime both platforms have started their final journey t
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by kristoff_it 11mo ago
GitHub Actions are seriously broken and that alone is a technically sound enough reason to move: the sleep.sh bullshit has degraded the performance of our CI for a long time, as it regularly livelocks in an endless while(true) spin runner a
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by kristoff_it 11mo ago
Some people like Zig because it makes it easier to learn how to program the machine sitting in front of them. It's better at that than Rust because it's less abstracted, and it's better at that than C because you don't h
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by kristoff_it 11mo ago
This writing is absolutely too vapid (even as far as AI slop goes), especially for the kind of jabs it makes at Rust. Zig is not the end solution to all problems, just like neither Rust is. Each is a sweetspot on the spectrum of possible so
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by kristoff_it 1y ago
It's definitely possible to hit the ground running you have some knowledge of systems programming. I would say that the Zig version is much easier to understand than the C version provided by the book because the Zig one uses `packed s
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by kristoff_it 1y ago
For those who want a "packaged" experience doing this same kind of work, there's "Operating System in 1000 Lines of Code" ( https://operating-system-in-1000-lines.vercel.app/en/ ), I followed it

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