December 04, 2025
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GitHub has become “completely neglected”, according to a scathing review of the platform from the project leader behind Zig.
Zig is one of the most admired programming languages, according to the 2025 Stack Overflow developer survey. But the man overseeing the project has chosen to pull it from the popular GitHub code repository – due to the platform leaving one of its automated AI code updating tools “completely neglected”.
The project leader behind Zig, Andrew Kelly, did not immediately respond to an interview request. However, in a blog post explaining the decision, he detailed his opposition to the direction of travel GitHub was taking following its acquisition by Microsoft seven years ago.
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December 04, 2025
