Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession/

52•Brajeshwar•55m ago

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mechazawa•36m ago

More and more projects are moving to Codeberg, and I'm wondering; at what point will a critical mass be reached? Or will we end up with a fragmented ecosystem?

Zardoz84•26m ago

I prefer a pletora of code hosting sites, that one massive hub controlled by a single one. We can see how bad is when there is a monopoly or cuasi-monopoly.

pan69•26m ago

> fragmented ecosystem

This sounds a bit like an oxymoron. More diversity will only help the ecosystem IMHO.

xeonmc•26m ago

You say fragmented I say decentralized.

IshKebab•24m ago

I say "I'm not making yet another account to report this bug". Tangled is trying to solve that problem but we'll see.

phoronixrly•21m ago

Imagine the sense of entitlement. Not only are you not contributing any code to an open-source project, but you don't even care about it enough to make an account in order to report a bug.

I see this as a total win.

P.S. Please stop trying to make tangled happen, it's not going to happen. Open-source projects are running away from corporate git forges. Why would they choose a VC-controlled one built on top of a VC-controlled protocol with known deficiencies.

Edit: Oh, it's IshKebab. I've fed the trolls again, sorry.

hinkley•17m ago

So how many bugs did you file on sourceforge when GitHub hadn’t quite killed it off?

sdqali•19m ago

The D in DVCS working as expected.

hinkley•18m ago

Oh no, our decentralized VCS will be… decentralized!

Seriously though the big problem to solve will be squatters, when there are three logical places for a module to be hosted. That could create issues if you want to migrate.

I would rather have this happening after a contender to git has surfaced. Something for instance with more project tracking built in so migration were simpler.

messe•8m ago

> Seriously though the big problem to solve will be squatters, when there are three logical places for a module to be hosted

I suspect Codeberg, which is focused on free software, will frown on them. They already disallow mirroring.

thewisenerd•26m ago

previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46064571

Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg - 883 comments

IshKebab•25m ago

Lack of investment more like. There are a ton of simple and obvious bugs that have persisted well before the AI crazy, e.g. this annoying bug from 2021: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/6874

This one is almost a one-line change (technically they need an extra flag in the YAML but that's hardly difficult): https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/12882#discussi...

That said, I still think Github is fine, and you can't argue with free CI - especially on Windows/Mac. If they ever stop that I'll definitely consider Codeberg. Or if Codeberg gets support for stacked PRs (i.e. dependencies between PRs), then I'm there! So frustrating that Github doesn't support such an obvious workflow.

hinkley•15m ago

Not spending on maintenance is bad.

Not spending on maintenance and spending gobs on something many people don’t want is far worse. It says we have the money, we just don’t give a fuck.

brabel•24m ago

In other news today, Bun, which is one of the biggest projects written in Zig, joined Anthropic, the company behind Claude Code, and has nothing but kind words to say about AI. If Zig becomes ever more hostile to AI, I wonder if there may be some "friction" there.

jazzyjackson•17m ago

Why would zig care that a project written in zig is used for AI?

tuupola•21m ago

They also made the disastrous update to the dashboard feed which made the frontpage pretty much useless.

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/65343

themgt•5m ago

I have sympathy for some of the GitHub complaints. otoh just went to try to signup for Codeberg and it's down ... 95% uptime over the last 2 weeks?

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