For sure, and I think most people would agree with this. However, I also think most people treat it differently when it is someone so high up because they have a lot of control and, more importantly, accumulate a large part of the profit.

I don't think you should not be allowed to have strong political opinions in such a position. I just think that in this case, it is very dangerous to express so much support for them in such a public way. I say this because (from my perspective at least) a large part of Mullvad's "competitive advantage" is their brand image, and it just feels that a link to controversial politics probably does more harm than good to this brand image.

If the donations were to the opposite end of the political spectrum, do you think there would be a similar amount of backlash?

Really cool to see work progressing on this! It would be awesome to one day be able to use Zig for serious shader work

At first I was very excited about this project. After reading the comments, I'm now deeply saddened by it... Given how much competition there already is in the GUI framework space, it's very difficult to see why something hastily thrown together by AI would get much traction. To really make an impact in this space, I think we'll need to see something thoughtfully designed that really tries to innovate in some profound way rather than just being more of the same

Zig still lacks a proper GUI framework that you can actually rely on.

ImGui is reliable and Zig makes it trivial to use.

Fair enough. I was referring to the GUI framework space in general, not specifically for Zig

In what general direction would the innovation be?

I'm not sure if it's actually needed - a lot of things have been tried and the paradigms that persisted you can choose between but it seems to be a matter of taste. I often feel that the real issue is the lack of maturity and stability. I rather want a complete UI toolkit including learning resources (not reference docs!), no matter how boring, instead of super clever implementation that is never in a usable state.

Very interesting write-up, thank you! I never really considered that compilers can also use asserts to improve performance, but it does make sense.

This seems like a very positive move to me. It makes it clear what Zig days are about so people know what to expect. There are 1000s of other events for people who want to build with LLMs so it's nice to have some recourse for those who still want to code by hand

I'm very excited about the future of Zig! I really love the conservative and measured approach they are taking. Unlike many others these days, they appear to prioritise doing things right over simply going as fast as possible and trying to grab as much attention as possible.

Thanks for sharing, it's very informative!

Yeah it seems pretty insane to use a vibe-coded storage engine unless you had no other option

Nice and clean, I like it!

This talk introduces Litterbox. If you're developing on Linux and you're looking for some protection from supply chain attacks and/or rogue coding agents, this might be the solution you're looking for!