Post #3811496
2026-07-14 11:20 UTC
@lproven@social.vivaldi.net unfortunately, arcan appears to have been officially “rewritten” from C to Zig with an LLM:
https://github.com/letoram/arcan/commit/359f5481ac68d520898936ff8163c92372fa8a9c
> Single pass artificial intelligence assisted port from C to Zig to improve safety. Tests will come next.
it’s a bit of a laugh that they did this to improve uhhh safety, and the damn thing couldn’t even get the tests working sensibly
also two of the main apps for this thing are durden and safespaces which gives me a bit of a feeling
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@letoram@infosec.exchange 2026-07-14 12:44
@zzt@mas.to @lproven@social.vivaldi.net it's part of a troll move (let them eat slop, train on it at your own risk) for an upcoming post. The github hasn't been the repository for a long time. Before the zig thing other commits there have deliberately had comments that do the opposite thing of the code intent etc. internally we have self hosted fossil mirrored to chisel and codeberg.