alt Hacker NewsBun’s Rust rewrite shipped in Claude Code over a month ago and barely anyone noticed. Claude Code is widely used. The Rust rewrite is going well overall.
In the Bun v1.4 video, I promised a certain number of newly passing Node.js tests were added to force us to improve compatibility, and that number is not true yet. The release is delayed until it is true. The PRs to make it true are up but not merged yet. Most likely next Tuesday we’ll do the release of 1.4.
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That's not surprising. Claude code is buggy enough, and releases break things often enough, that I wouldn't expect users to distinguish bugs introduced by switching to rust-based-bun from the normal garden variety bugs.
Any comment on the costs estimated in the article? especially the buildkite costs?
I’m really glad I don’t use anything that relies on Bun. What a mess you’ve made of this whole thing.
Jarred, thank you for working on Bun. Many "vibe coded" :D projects start strong and are later abandoned (like potentially Anthropic C), so I understand why people worry about Bun's future. I hope Bun lasts for many years, like GCC. Bun is fast and great to use.
In Dutch there's a saying, "wij van wc eend adviseren wc eend", and it fits perfectly.
We would need to know at least:
- How many people have updated Claude/Bun to the latest version.
- How many subscribers care about reporting issues. Most of them are forced to use the tool against their will and have mentally checked out already. Why report issues if your employer values slop code anyway. Just log the hours and keep your head down. Maybe it is not expedient for the AI narrative to report issues!
- How many subscriptions are real vs. bulk distiller accounts.
- If subscriber numbers are inflated.
Judging by the weird Claude Code Github issues page, there are suspiciously few new issues: about 2 to 3 a day only vs. alleged subscriber numbers of 4 million.
> The Rust rewrite is going well overall.
I look forward to the postmortem!
Take as long as you need to ensure software quality. A month without a release isn't a big deal and whomever needs a specific feature can offer to contribute or build themselves.
Node has 4-6 weeks without a meaningful release (other than security stuff) pretty much every December. I think the criticism in the article is unfounded and whomever needed/wanted a release should have asked first instead of writing an "angry" blog post.
(I'm a Node.js maintainer)