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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

#41

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.

Understandable

Yes, smells like vibe code. Haven't looked inside but can already tell

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

#43

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 can just scroll down to the contributors section to see that it was indeed written by Claude

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

#44

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!

This is just a copy of LazyGit the original and long player git in tui

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

#45
post #7

Neat project, but the README would benefit from a human author. I can tell what you prompted by the way the README is worded. It should tell me more about what this project solves. I don't care that it uses idiomatic zig. Why should I use this instead of lazygit?

If this is idiomatic zig, functions must be expensive because it fails horribly in the DRY departement. Also, papering over exceptions everywhere by... catching and not handling exceptions. What could possibly go wrong?

You have no idea don't you? it's like telling Ghostty failed because you don't understand how try/catch was a mistake in software conception.

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

#49
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If this is idiomatic zig, functions must be expensive because it fails horribly in the DRY departement. Also, papering over exceptions everywhere by... catching and not handling exceptions. What could possibly go wrong?

You have no idea don't you? it's like telling Ghostty failed because you don't understand how try/catch was a mistake in software conception.

Why are there exceptions in the first place then? If that's what you want, write ON ERROR RESUME NEXT and be honest about it.

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

#50

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?

Exactly, waste of electricity
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