Why feel bad? If you’re using Zig to write a game or a system tool why should you care if Bun uses it or not? All this drama has very little impact on most users of Zig or its developers (some financial impact, but Andrew had already foreseen that as a risk and avoided depending on it)

libghostty is more impactful than Bun IMO. It doesn’t matter to most other developers that Bun was written in Zig, but that such a a good library is written in Zig could have an impact on whether other devs use Zig to write libraries, or if they consider Zig for their app when having libghostty as a dependency

TigerBeetle is also more important than Bun since Zig is a better match for their needs it was for Bun, and TigerBeetle team seems to be a better partner for the Zig foundation. The Bun/Oven team seemed to be an annoyance rather than a synergetic partner.

But in general, pre-1.0, I think any large project that uses it is just a bonus.

Back when Bun was announced I was so excited for it. I was onboarding on a large node TypeScript project at the time and the build time and resource usage were killing me. Deno’s compatibility hacks and rough edges with node made it a non-starter.

I thought Bun’s promise of full node compatibility with better devex was a dream come true. Then “1.0” was announced and the first simple script I tried segfaulted Bun. The second threw a random error because the http server didn’t implement some stream api. I knew then that Bun was in the league of Vlang. Over promise and under delivery. Just ship “1.0” anyway for marketing and VC reasons. I haven’t touched it since. 2 people I trust that spent time looking at its code and both said to stay away.

Deno had the quality, but missed on the compat because (initially at least) it had an original and more ambitious vision. At least I’d give them that. Bun promised compat in exchange of any ambitious vision but it offers nothing. It runs on hype and hyperbole.

TigerBeetle is the other canonical example.

Spare us the concern trolling, Zig will be fine.

> The desperation to remain relevant now that Bun’s gone

Huh? Zig was never dependent on Bun for being relevant. Tigerbeetle, for example, is written in Zig.

I feel bad for C++. Oh wait, I don't.