Sure, the author just happened to one-shot a project and a landing page on new year's eve. And their writing style is just coincidentally very similar to Claude's.
Upvote for Bazel. I think these days I place a lot more value on how well an ecosystem slots into Bazel/friends because monorepos are increasingly more useful and relevant.
So nice to see there are good rules for Zig and that folks are using them.
Also ironically I think starting with Bazel/Buck/whatever your poison of choice is almost always a good move even if people tell you it's overkill. The easiest time to do it as at the beginning, all times after that is too hard and the marginal cost of building with it from the start is minimal.
People are free to knock themselves out with Bazel if they’re into that kind of masochism, but having it as the ONLY way to build your OSS project is a big no.
The problem with "the language tooling is already a build system" is that cross-language dependency chains are a thing. The moment you need a Rust or Zig file to be regenerated and recompiled when a JSON schema or .proto file is updated, you're outside what most of those language-specific toolchains can support. This is where Bazel absolutely shines.
If all of your dependencies need to use the same build system as your project then your build system/process is defect anyway. It should be possible to invoke a foreign build system as part of your build.
Edit: AI slop projets are more and more frequent on HN these days, but this one went as far as buying a domain name and vibe-coding a landing page, I wonder if it's just the usual resume-padding fake project or if there's something more nefarious behind it.
I really wish HN had an explicit policy against this kind of low-effort/scam-ish content.
Oh god no. Just having fun with zig and being a little over enthusiast I guess. I'm a big fan of nats, and really wanted to see how far you can push the idea if you do it differently. I was not expecting that tbh but, hpn too!
Claude did rewrote lots of my original messy code. No shame in that? But in the end the interest was in the underlying architecture, applied to nats protocol. Anyway.
I’d invite you to reconsider the kind of language you’re using to interact with other forum members here.
Dropping to profanities is not conducive to maintaining an environment that’s facilitating dialogue between its members.
I’ve seen you at least twice call other members here “you idiot”, “get lost”. Etc. Have a hard think as to whether you could rephrase that without the name calling, and if at worse you can’t manage to, you can always ask an LLM to do it for you.
I did a similar thing few days back just not with NATS protocol (Made it pure websocket based), and with rust. Couple of questions:
- Where did you get the machine to test your server on?
- Why did you end up going with zig?
My personal rig and Zig because I worked with it for a little more than a year. It was a fun test to do.
Anyone can buy a 9950x on Amazon or any tech store, it's consumer hardware.
Given that this entire project is a single[1] vibe-coded commit, I really doubt the author bothered buying hardware to test it.
[1]: https://github.com/bustermq/bustermq/commits/master/
it's not vide coded though, that's the second time you're saying it, get lost
Sure, the author just happened to one-shot a project and a landing page on new year's eve. And their writing style is just coincidentally very similar to Claude's.
Who's going to buy that?
You should at least try and align the ascii flowchart in the readme on the repo.
One day Claude will do it correctly but today is not that day.
Upvote for Bazel. I think these days I place a lot more value on how well an ecosystem slots into Bazel/friends because monorepos are increasingly more useful and relevant.
So nice to see there are good rules for Zig and that folks are using them.
Also ironically I think starting with Bazel/Buck/whatever your poison of choice is almost always a good move even if people tell you it's overkill. The easiest time to do it as at the beginning, all times after that is too hard and the marginal cost of building with it from the start is minimal.
agreed, love Bazel + BuildBuddy
Downvote for this web site is a horror movie billboard and zig already has a build system which is zig and that's one of it's neat features.
People are free to knock themselves out with Bazel if they’re into that kind of masochism, but having it as the ONLY way to build your OSS project is a big no.
well, bazel is by far the most reliable one so I'm not sure why you're complaining
Yeah I'm never touching Bazel again. I value my sanity.
zig's build system has limitations that Bazel solves
The problem with "the language tooling is already a build system" is that cross-language dependency chains are a thing. The moment you need a Rust or Zig file to be regenerated and recompiled when a JSON schema or .proto file is updated, you're outside what most of those language-specific toolchains can support. This is where Bazel absolutely shines.
If all of your dependencies need to use the same build system as your project then your build system/process is defect anyway. It should be possible to invoke a foreign build system as part of your build.
and it would be terrible for hermeticity and reproducibility, nix tries very hard and gets mediocre results
perhaps, just perhaps, why people go through the trouble not because they are idiots but for actual engineering reasons
Zig build system can do all that just fine though
not without major limitations and drawbacks
Rust build system can do all that just fine though
Does it have a similar system to Jetstream? If yes, does it address the reliability issues Jetstream has been criticized about lately?
Absolutely not and will never have.
Comparison/benchmark to other alternatives?
Your daily dose of AI slop…
Happy new year 2026 everyone.
Edit: AI slop projets are more and more frequent on HN these days, but this one went as far as buying a domain name and vibe-coding a landing page, I wonder if it's just the usual resume-padding fake project or if there's something more nefarious behind it.
I really wish HN had an explicit policy against this kind of low-effort/scam-ish content.
Oh god no. Just having fun with zig and being a little over enthusiast I guess. I'm a big fan of nats, and really wanted to see how far you can push the idea if you do it differently. I was not expecting that tbh but, hpn too!
nobody cares about the website being done with AI because the code of the project itself is not AI
you need to touch grass
The code of the project absolutely does look like it was done with AI lol, it’s a single commit…
Claude did rewrote lots of my original messy code. No shame in that? But in the end the interest was in the underlying architecture, applied to nats protocol. Anyway.
a single commit doesn't mean it's vide coded you idiot
1/ AIs are terrible at Zig
2/ I happen to know the author personally
I’d invite you to reconsider the kind of language you’re using to interact with other forum members here.
Dropping to profanities is not conducive to maintaining an environment that’s facilitating dialogue between its members.
I’ve seen you at least twice call other members here “you idiot”, “get lost”. Etc. Have a hard think as to whether you could rephrase that without the name calling, and if at worse you can’t manage to, you can always ask an LLM to do it for you.
the way he came barging through the door doesn’t invite sympathy
> 1/ AIs are terrible at Zig
Claude isn't, and the zig subreddit is actually full of AI slop projects unfortunately.
And yesterday's front page Zig project was also vibe coded (though in that case the author acknowledged it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442792)
Dude, when I move projects to GitHub I also often collapse everything into a single commit.
I do this to avoid having to check e-mail addresses and names in commits - maybe I mistakenly made a commit from my work account etc.
After the “initial” commit making it all public, I start to work “in the open”. I see many others doing it the same way.
That is NOT a reliable indicator of slop!
Wow! This entire project seem to be a big ball of AI slop.
your lack of skills doesn't mean it is (it's not)