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It’s really only a matter of time until someone forks the Zig version of Bun. What a slap in the face to all the Zig developers that spent their time, effort a
by throwatdem12311 5mo ago
It’s really only a matter of time until someone forks the Zig version of Bun.
What a slap in the face to all the Zig developers that spent their time, effort and probably even some money contributing to it.
- u_fucking_dork 5mo ago[flagged]
- ramon156 5mo agoWhat a weird take. Might as well give up on anything you care about, as its only an "x"
- u_fucking_dork 5mo agoYou shouldn’t feel slapped in the face if someone chooses a programming language you don’t like. Full stop.
- onel 5mo agoThat's not what he's saying. It's not about the programming language. It's about people contributing, putting effort into the project and being passionate about it and then someone else throwing all off that away.
- u_fucking_dork 5mo agoThrowing all away by changing to a different programming language. None of it is thrown away, it’s just now in a new language. On top of that Bun is realistically a one man show with the vast majority of the code written by one dude. So the comment I replied to started from outrage and worked backwards to justify it without thinking too hard tbh. The implication that you shouldn’t be able to change the programming language of your own project is also weird. Personally I welcome things like Typescript being rewritten in Go
- fragmede 5mo agoWhen other people start to relying on you, you do develop some level of responsibility to them. That's not weird at all. If your project is your cat's website code, no one cares if it breaks. If you're project is something my project relies on that I use to put food on the table, yeah it's your project, but it's not remotely weird for me to have some sort of an opinion if I think you're yolo pulling rugs, and using hope as the strategy that you don't pull one that I'm standing on.
- u_fucking_dork 5mo agoIn your fantasy scenario moving to Rust over Zig 0.16 would good
- pessimizer 5mo agoTo upper-middle class people, their job is a religion. Investing in a programming language is a decision to gamble thousands of hours of your life for a programmer. At some point of projects shifting away from your language, your mortgage and your children's tuition will be affected.
- newtonianrules 5mo agoI’m so glad as a Python developer none of this religious bullshit enters into the equation. Exactly why I left Scala behind.
- antonvs 5mo agoYour comment is just as religious as any other advocate of a programming language. You're giving reasons why the programming language you chose is the right choice. Kind of like explaining why Yahweh is the one true god, and why you left other gods behind.
- newtonianrules 5mo ago[dead]
- RadiozRadioz 5mo agoI think it's a miscategorisation that programmers are upper-middle class. Lots would probably reach middle, but upper-middle is more tied to generational wealth and other factors of social prestige that aren't typically attainable for a normal working programmer. Edit: You mentioned tuition, so you must be American. I am British and our social class "system" is different. I'll leave my comment as some may find it interesting.
- postepowanieadm 5mo agoIt's not about which programming language they use.
- jdw64 5mo agoRealistically speaking, when Anthropic acquired Bun, they naturally would have needed a narrative showcasing that their AI excels even at relatively new languages like Zig. But since the Zig camp explicitly declared an anti-AI stance, it makes perfect sense why things played out this way. It's a understandable business realit
- asdfsa32 5mo agoAdd todo item: learn zig.
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