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Bun v1.3.14 might be the last version in Zig

21 points by bpierre ago | 10 comments

ksec |next [-]

So this went from people are over reacting to they are not over reacting?

I wonder if Tigerbeetle or Ghostty are next?

szmarczak |root |parent [-]

Zig not having destructors was a mistake.

nih567 |next |previous [-]

This is not surprising, considering that the acquiring company's entire business plan is based on burning more tokens.

classicposter |next |previous [-]

Porting TypeScript to Go and coreutils to Rust is understandable given their legitimate background. However, this is just a slop. The original code and tests are of poor quality, so the only thing that can be fixed is segmentation faults...

jaredcwhite |next |previous [-]

Are we surprised that a project bought out by an AI company wants to vibe code a new AI-sloppified runtime? (The comments of "it's basically the same codebase" are so laughable as to feel like intentional gaslighting. Are we really that stupid?)

tempaccount420 |next |previous [-]

Is it just me or are the Zig zealots actually somehow more annoying than Rust zealots?

Many weird takes since the past week...

akagusu |previous [-]

RIP Zig.

kristoff_it |root |parent |next [-]

Zig has been doing fine before Bun and will be fine also after.

I'm personally thankful to Jarred & Bun for supporting Zig Software Foundation financially before they got acquired by Anthropic, but the reality of interacting with individuals in the Zig community is that the people who actually show up to Zig events and who do have compelling open source projects are almost never people who were interested in Zig because of Bun.

Bun did give us a bunch of visibility, but most of it was superficial interest.

Understandably, Bun is a JS runtime and so the people who discovered Zig that way were likely interested in doing webdev, and Zig is just now polishing the I/O implementation, so it doesn't have yet a particularly compelling web development experience to offer.

KronisLV |root |parent |next |previous [-]

Seems like a nice language https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/

Maybe I should write some code in it sometime.

accelbred |root |parent |previous [-]

More like RIP bun. Wouldn't have paid any attention bun if it weren't for Zig. Now I need to figure out what the "normal" runtime is to switch my work typescript stuff to.