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> In the near term, Bun choosing to switch from Zig to Rust specifically to fix all the memory errors seems to have done the Zig community some psychological da

> In the near term, Bun choosing to switch from Zig to Rust specifically to fix all the memory errors seems to have done the Zig community some psychological damage. Meanwhile, some projects are doing the opposite, like going from Rust to Zig, here's an example from a podcast I recently listened to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSXGf3oN2yU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSXGf3oN2yU Here's the project in question: https://github.com/roc-lang/roc https://github.com/roc-lang/roc I think Bun just got a lot of visibility because of the speed and scope of the migration, which both shook things up and I guess was good PR cause that made a lot of headlines.

flooow 5mo ago
I wish Roclang well but (as a regular listener to Feldman's podcast) I don't think we can draw many conclusions from this switch other than "Feldman has lots of opinions on lots of things".
- flohofwoe 5mo ago
  You can replace the product and author name with Bun and the Bun author and the sentence also works, in the end all technical decisions are based on "opinions".
  - KronisLV 5mo ago
    I mean, personally I just hope that at the end of the day everyone is as happy as the technologies in question will permit them to be. Either way I wouldn't say that Zig is done even after such prominent/loud news as the Bun rewrite.
- tasuki 5mo ago
  I find the Elm-adjacent people generally have above average taste, so that's a signal for me.
throwaway613746 5mo ago
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codethief 5mo ago
> Meanwhile, some projects are doing the opposite, like going from Rust to Zig, here's an example from a podcast I recently listened to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSXGf3oN2yU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSXGf3oN2yU Thanks for the link! Unfortunately, contrary to what the title suggests, that video seems to be more about AI than about the migration? (Sigh…) I did, however, find the following document where they explain why they migrated to Zig. It makes for a nice read: https://gist.github.com/rtfeldman/77fb430ee57b42f5f2ca973a3992532f#why-zig-over-rust https://gist.github.com/rtfeldman/77fb430ee57b42f5f2ca973a39...

flooow 5mo ago

I wish Roclang well but (as a regular listener to Feldman's podcast) I don't think we can draw many conclusions from this switch other than "Feldman has lots of opinions on lots of things".

flohofwoe 5mo ago
You can replace the product and author name with Bun and the Bun author and the sentence also works, in the end all technical decisions are based on "opinions".
- KronisLV 5mo ago
  I mean, personally I just hope that at the end of the day everyone is as happy as the technologies in question will permit them to be. Either way I wouldn't say that Zig is done even after such prominent/loud news as the Bun rewrite.
tasuki 5mo ago
I find the Elm-adjacent people generally have above average taste, so that's a signal for me.

throwaway613746 5mo ago

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codethief 5mo ago

> Meanwhile, some projects are doing the opposite, like going from Rust to Zig, here's an example from a podcast I recently listened to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSXGf3oN2yU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSXGf3oN2yU Thanks for the link! Unfortunately, contrary to what the title suggests, that video seems to be more about AI than about the migration? (Sigh…) I did, however, find the following document where they explain why they migrated to Zig. It makes for a nice read: https://gist.github.com/rtfeldman/77fb430ee57b42f5f2ca973a3992532f#why-zig-over-rust https://gist.github.com/rtfeldman/77fb430ee57b42f5f2ca973a39...