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Show HN: Zedis – A Redis clone I'm writing in Zig

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135 points barddoo | 1 comments | 19 Sep 25 21:55 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Writing Redis from scratch in Zig.
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johnisgood ◴[19 Sep 25 23:40 UTC] No.45308123[source]▶
Seems like LLMs are getting good at Zig (with some help, I presume).
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mtlynch ◴[19 Sep 25 23:50 UTC] No.45308193[source]▶
Is there anything about this project that seems LLM-generated?

I've found that LLMs are particularly bad at writing Zig because the language evolves quickly, so LLMs that are trained on Zig code from two years ago will write code that no longer compiles on modern Zig.

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1. johnisgood ◴[20 Sep 25 07:08 UTC] No.45311161[source]▶
Fair enough, but I have made a couple of projects in Odin using Claude, and Odin is evolving too, and it is much more obscure than Zig. I made these projects successfully by feeding the LLM the documentation of Odin and gave it example projects... thus, if I could create Odin projects (with some reiterations and hand-holding, true), then Zig should be even better.