alt Hacker NewsI don't think Zig community is triggered, I think only Zig's creator is triggered because he is afraid of people interpreting this as "Zig is unsuitable for X".
I think a lot of people will, but those who do probably weren't the target audience for Zig in the first place?
Context matters. Big announcements and uninformed blog posts can kill your momentum.
I still remember the Twitter dev blog where they abandoned Ruby/Rails and the damage that did. It turned out Twitter was doing a lot of stupid things and there was a mismatch of tools and their goals. They loudly blamed the tools and people ate it up because Twitter was big, visible and adored at the time. Their conclusions bypassed most people’s ability to reason.
Anthropic/Bun are big, visible and adored…