On the previous HN article, I recall many a comment talking about how they should change this, leave the politics/negative juju out because it was a bad look for the Zig community.

It would appear they listened to that feedback, swallowed their ego/pride and did what was best for the Zig community with these edits. I commend them for their actions in doing what's best for the community at the cost of some personal mea culpa edits.

Anger is a mind killer. Build software out of love. Love for engineering, innovation, creation, and love of working with people who feel the same way.

They should know that crap software is rarely intentional as they make it out to be in the initial version of the text, what you get is what they are able to build in the environment they are in (that matters too). Capability and environment.

to quote something I said a day ago about AI spotting in the posts of other people:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114083

"I think that writing style is more LinkedIn than LLM, the style of people who might get slapped down if they wrote something individual.

Much of the world has agreed to sound like machines."

Also

> More importantly, Actions is created by monkeys ...

vs

> Most importantly, Actions has inexcusable bugs ...

I commend the author for correcting their mistakes. However, IMHO, an acknowledgement instead of just a silent edit would have been better.

Anyway, each to their own, and I'm happy for the Zig community.

This, I was shocked when I read the first version. I get it if you’re an influencer, but as a programming language people need to expect you can manage your emotions and be objective

More and more people should call out bloated buggy JS frameworks lol

At least he edited it to something more palatable. I vastly prefer someone who can admit to making a mistake and amending what they said to someone who doubles down. The latter attitude has become far too normalised in the last few years.

I say this as someone who has been cautioning about Microsoft's ownership of GitHub for years now... but the Zig community has been high drama lately. I thought the Rust community had done themselves a disservice with their high tolerance of drama, but lately Zig seems to me to be more drama than even Rust.

I was saddened to see how they ganged up to bully the author of the Zig book. The book author, as far as I could tell, seems like a possibly immature teenager. But to have a whole community gang up on you with pitch forks because they have a suspicion you might use AI... that was gross to watch.

I was already turned off by the constant Zig spam approach to marketing. But now that we're getting pitchfork mobs and ranty anti-AI diatribes it just seems like a community sustaining itself on negative energy. I think they can possibly still turn it around but it might involve cleaning house or instituting better rules for contributors.

What is the point of this post? To shame the author?

this Corporate Americanism is of only positivity and fake smiles is exactly how we end up with enshittified products, because no one is ever called out for it. If the feedback is too soft, it just gets swept under the rug.

we need less self censorship, not more.

Reads like an official White House statement[0].

[0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/yes-biden-spent-...