I've seen plenty of projects in C with way more complexity and far fewer issues than Bun, and C is definitely less safe than Zig. Memory management strategies are not new things! Professional developers learn to use their tools effectively. After reading the article and the connected context I just get the sense that this is a poorly developed codebase. A bad carpenter blames his tools and all that. I agree with the article that this seems to be about culture. A vibe coded port that explicitly uses unsafe in Rust is not going to be any safer.

I mean look, I'm sorry, but at this point I cannot take the Bun project seriously. If people are bragging about not-bothering-to-read-the-code and practicing atrocious engineering with LLMs, and then they're like "it's the language's fault!". Yeah, no, I don't buy it. Plenty of people can write applications in languages without automatic memory management without endemic use-after-free issues. As vibe coders like to say: skill issue.