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Re: Ziggity – A terminal UI for Git, written in Zig

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Post by pelasaco » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 6:16 PM UTC

dd_xplore wrote: post #10

I wonder when is the 900,000 lines single commit coming for Rust rewrite

dont worry, soon or late it will show up in HN..

Re: Ziggity – A terminal UI for Git, written in Zig

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Post by IshKebab » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 6:20 PM UTC

dd_xplore wrote: post #10

I wonder when is the 900,000 lines single commit coming for Rust rewrite

It's written by Claude already so it probably wouldn't make any difference I guess?

Re: Ziggity – A terminal UI for Git, written in Zig

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Post by v3ss0n » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 6:22 PM UTC

dd_xplore wrote: post #10

I wonder when is the 900,000 lines single commit coming for Rust rewrite

You beat me to it

Re: Ziggity – A terminal UI for Git, written in Zig

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Post by v3ss0n » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 6:24 PM UTC

arikrahman wrote: post #5

Maybe can emphasize yourself and call it LazyZig or something with the lazy moniker.

Lazy in a way that it was been vibe coded

Re: Ziggity – A terminal UI for Git, written in Zig

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Post by sashank_1509 » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 6:24 PM UTC

I’m such a CLANKER hater now, I want to know if this was written by agents or not. If written by agents, I don’t want anything to do with it. I only want human written software, even LLM autocomplete seems a bridge too far.

Re: Ziggity – A terminal UI for Git, written in Zig

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Post by onlyrealcuzzo » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 6:29 PM UTC

dd_xplore wrote: post #10

I wonder when is the 900,000 lines single commit coming for Rust rewrite

I'm working on porting the Rust compiler to VB.NET, so I can run it inside Excel spreadsheets.

And so it's "actually memory safe".

/sarcasm in case not obvious.

Re: Ziggity – A terminal UI for Git, written in Zig

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Post by colesantiago » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 6:42 PM UTC

Honest feedback:

This is AI generated TUI slop made with claude.

I've been seeing a sad trend of these things being built with AI with no care and will be just abandoned in less than a month.

Why should I use this when I can use lazygit which is more popular and has been around and battle tested for years?

Re: Ziggity – A terminal UI for Git, written in Zig

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Post by ursuscamp » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 6:47 PM UTC

sashank_1509 wrote: post #15

I’m such a CLANKER hater now, I want to know if this was written by agents or not. If written by agents, I don’t want anything to do with it. I only want human written software, even LLM autocomplete seems a bridge too far.

You're in for a great deal of pain in the coming years.

Re: Ziggity – A terminal UI for Git, written in Zig

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Post by kvisner » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 6:48 PM UTC

Very cool, but if I'm prompting / looping an AI agent as my main development process, what is the use case here? I feel the biggest help would be to make Reviewing PRs from the terminal easier, I care less about commit logs and status.

Re: Ziggity – A terminal UI for Git, written in Zig

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Post by rvz » Mon, Jul 20, 2026, 6:53 PM UTC

sashank_1509 wrote: post #15

I’m such a CLANKER hater now, I want to know if this was written by agents or not. If written by agents, I don’t want anything to do with it. I only want human written software, even LLM autocomplete seems a bridge too far.

So you guarantee that you yourself will never use AI or agents in any capacity?

Is that the principled position you want stand on in 2026 and beyond?