My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite
https://andrewkelley.me/post/my-thoughts-bun-rust-rewrite.html
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Andrew Kelley
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Lead developer & president of Zig Software Foundation.
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Text adaptation of my Software Should Work 2026 keynote
https://andrewkelley.me/post/dont-take-black-pill.html
zig now ships its package management functionality in source form and compiles it on demand
https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-06-30
I've been sleeping on Krita (FOSS digital painting software) big time
Zig 0.16.0 is tagged. Release notes are just about completed and will be published in about 20 hours when the tarballs finish building.
As it turns out, it takes a while to build LLVM 27 times on one computer! That's how many different targets we provide compiler binaries for now - all cross compiled from one host.
Release notes are up!
I wish it went without saying, but these notes are completely written by hand.
In a way, computing embodies the essence of humanity. We take a blank canvas of electrical fields - a purely physical phenomenon, devoid of inherent meaning - and imbue it with assumptions, values, and purpose, manifesting order despite a chaotic, uncaring universe; creating beautiful pockets of defiant structure, each clock cycle shielding these brittle gardens from entropy's relentless encroachment.
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
don't worry everyone. codeberg is down, but thankfully, we all collectively, wisely invested in version control technology that stores issue metadata, merge request metadata, and user account metadata in the same decentralized manner as the code, so we can continue to work like normal, and periodically synchronize with each other, peer-to-peer style
good thing we didn't foolishly all get used to using a separate DB for metadata that causes vendor lock in and requires high web server uptime
Are the Japanese OK? 🤣
From my grammar lesson this morning
Playing with the new multi-threaded fuzzer in Zig. Look at it go!
WARNING: Your yt-dlp version (2025.08.11) is older than 90 days!
still works tho! looks like el goog lost the battle 💪
sometimes it's nice to get thrown a softball
Alex Rønne Petersen joined the Zig core team in October of 2024. Hard to believe it’s already been a year and a half since then!
Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
Ali Cheraghi comin' in hot!! with his first devlog entry, which is about Zig's SPIR-V backend:
https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-06-26
After a long, unplanned hiatus, I'll do a live coding stream starting in a couple hours from now.
Main topic will be a demo of some partially completed changes to the build system, and pushing forward on it a little bit.
Q&A will also be welcome from chat.
we chillin in portland this weekend 🌞
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gee, I wonder what these lyrics from 2025 are referring to
had a lot of fun making this one. so much fun that it is almost 5am and I am still awake 😵
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@Abstract_Mage_Annastasia@tech.lgbt I can think of a lot of nice ways to find out about stuff without intrusive advertisements
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@indutny I left my comment on the HN article just now:
I used Node.js extensively for about a decade, both professionally and as a hobby. I don't buy the problem statement.
These arguments don't even make sense, they look LLM generated. I can't even formulate a disagreement against this nonsense.
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@indutny there has been so much thought and care poured into node.js over the years... to dilute it feels like spray painting some shitty graffiti on top of a beautiful mural
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@mitchellh@hachyderm.io void return type is either peak joy or peak suffering depending on the competency of who wrote the function
my second attempt at making drum n bass
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@mitchellh @lemire I'm only halfway through the post, but there's another trick you can do to avoid libc++abi dependency - compile the code with c++ but link with cc. This causes linker errors with every dependency on libc++ or libc++abi (iirc enough to correlate to the source)
@iamnotU@mastodon.social @platlas@en.osm.town that's some pretty aggressive apathy. I think there's a healthy balance of how much to care about what other people do
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@Abstract_Mage_Annastasia@tech.lgbt sounds like you are engaging with the "consensual" concept
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@mitchellh I wonder if this protocol is suitable for having some kind of logging utility that displays a live updating bar graph or line graph or something like that
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@Rylik it's very rude to fill human communication channels with LLM output, I think the checkmark gets the default backwards
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@darkcat09 this classic - don't miss the bridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD3QkNyORIo
Silverstein - Smashed Into Pieces
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@munificent@mastodon.social we're like 3 months away from poe's law applying to this scenario
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@Solemarc if you want to avoid a function call frame for example for tigher control over stack traces
or if you want the result to be comptime-known depending on the parameters
without it there is technically no equivalent to macros
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@wolfpld@mastodon.gamedev.place it's a brilliant primitive, especially if the compiler supports a safety option to turn all of them into traps
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@Dubhead@social.vivaldi.net in English it sounds like the mother is shouldering some horrific burden and barely managing to keep it together for her child