Zig Declines to Collect Bun's Garbage

Description

A white header above a grainy photograph reads "andrew kelly's thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite," misspelling Zig creator Andrew Kelley's surname. In the photo, a startled raccoon sits inside an open gray wheeled trash bin packed with white garbage bags and a bottle, with a blue bin visible to the left; an orange-and-yellow Zig logo is pasted over one bag. Huge white, black-outlined text along the bottom says "DON'T USE MY GARBAGE," and a tiny "imgflip.com" watermark appears in the lower-left corner. The meme caricatures Kelley's July 2026 response to Bun's AI-assisted rewrite from Zig to Rust: he argued that Bun's engineering practices and accumulated slop, rather than Zig itself, caused its quality problems and expressed relief that the project would no longer represent Zig. Casting him as a raccoon territorially guarding branded trash turns a bitter open-source breakup into a visual garbage and code-quality joke.