I have always used safetensors + metadata files (similar to Huggingface repo) format.
It is not a major pain point by any means, but good that GGUF has a compact format and good support.
Better to know where memory bugs may happen than them being everywhere.
Also, bun team are looking it to reduce it by a large margin. Since it was a line by line port, there is a good space for improvement. By first rust release, a significant number of it should be resolved.
This is a massive marketing for Anthropic. It shows how capable their systems to enterprises customers.
Also this is a perfect task for LLMs. They have the most detailed spec (Production Zig code) ever, and since it as file for file and line for line rewrite, agents were able to quickly complete a massive 1 Millon line rewrite.
I am seeing more Post Quantum safety measures suddenly, than ever before. I know this was a topic from at least a decade, but it looks like a sudden interest across industry.
Did something change? It looks like there was some breakthrough in quantum computers scaling and everyone if given some time before making it public.
Looks like the experiment was a success.
We will be seeing many of these and it will work out fine.
"Code is the spec" and "tests are the success rates" - as principles for these rewrites. We can look forward to many of big complex software re-written in language that make sense.