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Rust vs Zig "wars" etc. Also at some point Bun was acquired by Anthropic. And some people feared that this will greatly influence Bun's development.

• binary132 5mo ago
  which was obviously a reasonable reaction.
• carllerche 5mo ago
  I don't think Rust vs. Zig has anything to do with why people are talking about this. It is a large piece of "real software" that underwent a full language transition in ~1 week using LLMs. That is a big deal regardless of the language and will be a case study regardless of how it turns out.
  • ryanschaefer 5mo ago
    It’s a watershed moment. Basically one of the most controlled applications of an LLM into a robust codebase without regard for the implications of doing so. Anthropic needed something like this and it must proceed flawlessly. My guess is that nothing will explicitly break. But that’s the difficulty of LLM generated code: nothing breaks. You sit with a codebase that swallows all errors and appears to be working. Silently failing makes debugging performance and behavior much harder.
  • konart 5mo ago
    >I don't think Rust vs. Zig has anything to do with why people are talking about this. Maybe, but I've seen quite a few comments from people who felt sort of betrayed(?) by the decision. I feel like Bun was important for people as a project that advertises Zig and keeps it relevant even in it's current "pre 1.0" state.