I wonder how much this work being pushed forward right now is a response to the Bun drama.
It's the opposite: people have become more receptive to communication about this work now that there's "drama" attached to it.
This post I co-authored with Andrew is from 2020. In it we announce the idea of getting rid of LLVM from the debug build pipeline and since then work has been steadily going forward, it's just not trivial to bootstrap a full compiler pipeline for all major targets, but we're finally getting there.
In any case, I'm super glad for this milestone (and impressed!).
What if that’s true and what if that’s not true?
which applies to contributing to the Zig project.
The "contributor poker" blog post should probably be a required reading to understand where it comes from: https://kristoff.it/blog/contributor-poker-and-ai/
"Anti-AI stance" is painting it with too broad of a brush. You're definitely not breaching any CoC or whatever by using AI for your Zig projects.
yes, that was my point. as domeone who uses ai extensively to write zig (and someone who has made very small non-AI cobtributions to zig in the past), rejecting ai is currently a strategically good decision for core zig.