For context, in case any reader is not aware: Andrew Kelley, the author of this blog post, is also the creator and main developer of language Zig. And Bun was written in Zig.

Moment I learned that it is for profit company behind bun, I got feeing that something stupid is coming

When Jarred announced the Rust rewrite, we were ecstatic. It seemed too good to be true. I have to admit, I didn't think the technology was there, to pull off this stunt. But he did it, and now I'm metaphorically sipping delicious tea from a mug that says "It Tastes Like It's Not My Problem Anymore".

The best victory comes from a fight you don't need to fight, as Sun Tzu said.

"Oven is going to be a grind, especially the first nine months or so. If work-life balance means a lot of time spent not working, it's probably not a good fit."

Oh man, someone here recently shared a blog post on startup culture in software companies, which likened software to an oven, where you'd add a specific button for a customer and that fucks up your whole architecture for years to come etc..

For just a moment, I thought this was a direct quote from that blog post.

I always support the underdog. Jarred sounds like an ass.

Zig compiler project is about 600,000 lines of code - roughly the same size as Bun before the rewrite, and I'm clocking 16s to build from scratch with a clean cache, followed by 90ms for each subsequent edit with incremental compilation enabled.

That's impressive compilation performance. And so most certainly when contrasting it to Rust.

Brb, I am rewriting everything in Zig.

Oh, Rust and Zig. Two languages, continually compared and pit against each other, even though they are both such nice and innovative projects in their own right.

I started learning zig after this post and learning about Mr.Kelley's views on AI.

Is there another nodejs alternative that supports typescript in a similar way?