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> What are you talking about? I think GP was pointing out how bun's release cadence stalled and the project is going nowhere at the moment. https://github.com
by locknitpicker 2mo ago
> What are you talking about?
I think GP was pointing out how bun's release cadence stalled and the project is going nowhere at the moment.
https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/releases https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/releases
The project was pretty healthy up to 1.13.14, but since may they stopped shipping anything.
That's quite odd for a project that just went through a major rewrite and is lauded as being developed primarily by LLM coding assistants.
Personally I expected the release cadence was going to go through the roof, but instead it flat lined.
- rcxdude 2mo agoI wouldn't consider it particularly surprising that a big rewrite results in no new releases for a bit before the rewritten version is released.
- debugnik 2mo agoNot surprising, but Jarred has been teasing "tomorrow I swear" for months and Bun keeps missing his own deadlines. There's clearly something wrong in their confidence about Rust Bun: If it isn't ready they should have said "whenever it's done", and if it is they'd have met some deadline by now. I suspect the speed was supposed to be part of the stunt, yet they seem to have encountered the 90:90 rule.
- akkad33 2mo agoIsn't supposed to be faster with LLMs?
- CrimsonRain 2mo agoSo they are being more cautious and spending more time on polish after a never been done before historical massive rewrite...? Stop the press! They are not shipping as fast they used to! Omg!
- locknitpicker 2mo ago> So they are being more cautious and spending more time on polish after a never been done before historical massive rewrite...? That's not credible at all. I mean, after a major release there are tons of low-priority low-hanging fruit issues that can be quickly sorted out. That's the nature of a release process. However, Bun stopped releasing anything. Even after lauding it's AI push,which can easily chomp through small tickets. It's been a couple of months since the major push. I repeat: the release cadence of a mature, stable codebase as the Zig one was at 2-3 weeks. A messy rust rewrite packed with unsafe code, which is prime ground for small bugfixes and correctness fixes, led the project to grind to a halt. No one looks good in the picture.
- CrimsonRain 2mo agoBoo hoo https://bun.com/blog/bun-v1.4 https://bun.com/blog/bun-v1.4
- dgellow 2mo agoPretty sure that’s because of the backlash. So, sounds like a good thing people voiced their concerns