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You’re reading a code of conduct for contributing to the zig project. I don’t think everything there is guidance for everything written in zig, eg ‘English is encouraged’ is something one might not want for a project written in zig by native French-speakers, and I don’t think that’s something zig would want to suggest to them. I read the AI part is much more motivated by the asymmetries of open source project contribution than any statement about the language itself. Fly-by AI contributions are bad because they make particularly poor use of maintainer time. Similar to the rule on proposing language changes, which can suck up lots of reading/thinking/discussion time. When you have people regularly working together (eg those people in anthropic working on bun) the incentives are different because there is a higher cost to wasting your colleague’s time.

> Bun and Zig are increasingly culturally apart

That's like saying GCC and NodeJS are culturally apart, as if that has significant bearing on either?

Nothing I found says anything about Zig folks being inherently against AI. It just looks like they don’t want to deal with “AI Slop” in contributions to their project, which is very understandable.