> Bun operates its own fork of Zig, and recently achieved a 4x performance improvement on Bun compile after adding "parallel semantic analysis and multiple codegen units to the llvm backend". Here's that code. But @bunjavascript says:
> We do not currently plan to upstream this, as Zig has a strict ban on LLM-authored contributions.
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/zig-anti-ai/
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