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gorjusborgtoday at 8:42 PM0 repliesview on HN

Here's the thing:

I was first interested in Bun because it was written in Zig. I was interested in Zig because I respected Andrew Kelley's decision-making, and his taste matched my own.

I got really excited about Bun for many reasons after that, but they essentially came down to a similar root: the decisions were ones that I respected and would probably have made myself if I had thought of them.

I was a little concerned when Bun was acquired by Anthropic, but forced myself to remain cautiously optimistic.

This behavior, though, is exactly the sort of decision-making that I don't respect. I've got nothing against Rust, but if this is how Anthropic is managing Bun, I can no longer bet on it being a reliable part of my toolkit. It isn't just the code, it's the thought behind it that I have to trust.

I was so excited by Bun for many of the use-cases I have, but this just turns me off completely. This looks like an Anthropic internal-only tool, based on the behavior.