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Ziggity – A terminal UI for Git, written in Zig

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

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Post by uproarchat »

projektfu wrote: post #8
jddj wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't really tell why this comment got flagged, so I've vouched it. Maybe I've missed some context

It's probably because of HN's anti-LLM filter. I don't know if submitters use LLMs to touch up their descriptions or if these descriptions often use LLM-like phrasing.

If that's what happened, I wonder if the same filters exist for tools like Grammarly. Some people are English as a second language, and some people simply want to put the best foot forward and make the best first impression.

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

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Post by JacobAsmuth »

This is huge. I've always wanted to use Git in the terminal but never been happy with the underlying language that other TUIs were written in. Now that I know that I'm using developer-managed memory I can be much more comfortable and confident changing between branches, pushing, and pulling, and even merging code. Thanks Simone!

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

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Post by whimsicalism »

JacobAsmuth wrote: post #22

This is huge. I've always wanted to use Git in the terminal but never been happy with the underlying language that other TUIs were written in. Now that I know that I'm using developer-managed memory I can be much more comfortable and confident changing between branches, pushing, and pulling, and even merging code. Thanks Simone!

you dropped your /s

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

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Post by ubercore »

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #16
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.

I really want someone to do this now.

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

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Post by whimsicalism »

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.

some of you all need to take a break from politics, it is clearly not doing you good and easy to get swept up into group mania imo.

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

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Post by sashank_1509 »

rvz wrote: post #20
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?

Yes I won’t use LLM autocomplete or agents for any personal projects. At work, I’ll do whatever’s needed.

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

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Post by pageandrew »

projektfu wrote: post #8
jddj wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't really tell why this comment got flagged, so I've vouched it. Maybe I've missed some context

It's probably because of HN's anti-LLM filter. I don't know if submitters use LLMs to touch up their descriptions or if these descriptions often use LLM-like phrasing.

> - Independent drill-downs in the Branches/Commits panels (deliberate, not a port artifact)

> (deliberate, not a port artifact)

Smells like AI

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

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Post by rvz »

sashank_1509 wrote: post #26
rvz wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Yes I won’t use LLM autocomplete or agents for any personal projects. At work, I’ll do whatever’s needed.

> Yes I won’t use LLM autocomplete or agents for any personal projects.

So you would use AI including LLM autocomplete at work, but at the same time, you don't want anything to do with it?

You just previously said that:

>> "...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."

That means you would still use AI at some capacity which breaks that guarantee.

This also means that you just contradicted yourself, when I explicitly said in any capacity that you would never use AI or agents at all.

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

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Post by googletron »

kvisner wrote: post #19

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.

you can see the diff before you merge it. my main use case for lg is looking at diff and staging logical parts then committing with another tool or manually.
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