alt Hacker NewsThe very next sentence justifies why they didn't do it: it argues that they would have ended up with what was technically Zig but something that was much less ergonomic than what would be expected from Zig.
You can argue that that's a bad justification for not doing it, but that's a debate on the technical merits, not a claim that they didn't provide justification.
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afavour • today at 2:00 PM
As the article mentions, the follow on question from that is: why does that matter if your codebase is written exclusively by AI agents?
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Yeah since my whole point is about the technical merits of the rewrite article, I don't count that as justification.
Why is just a wrapper type "less ergonomic"? Everybody does that all the time in every language. And then if you can convince me it is less "ergonomic": why does it matter if it solves the problem? And that is considering humans write the code manually. Why does it matter if agents write the code? This makes no sense.