Homie probably went "Claude, rewrite this in rust" and left. Bit off too much. Dont listen to the AI companies, these things cannot be on their own.

Jarred was already writing slop well before he had access to LLMs.Oof, that explains everything

Meanwhile, we have an entire ecosystem of JS tools being written in Rust that are absolutely amazing, including oxc, rolldown, biome, and so on. They're not awesome because they're written in Rust though, but because actual thought and effort was put into making them great. They could have been written in any language (see: eslint, prettier, vite, tsgo, and so on).

Bun was never behind for being written in Zig, but was actually pushed forward by the language to accomplish what would have been far more difficult to do in C.

What killed it was when Bun stopped committing human effort in favor of mass-produced slop. Where I used to recommend Bun, I now just recommend pnpm/Node.js.

As an aside, I've been using Boa as an embedded runtime recently, and I've been loving it. It doesn't have the performance of other options, but it's good enough™ and still has room to improve.

Looks like Bun 1.4 is out now: https://bun.com/blog/bun-v1.4

I am sure the project will be dead in a year

In the past month, 15.8k commits came from "robobun," 1.6k commits from "autofix-ci[bot]," and 790 commits from Jarred.

No chance anybody is reviewing those. Worse, nobody else can reasonably inspect or review changes. I suspect even from release to release, you're looking basically at a new codebase, the next release invalidating all your previous assessment, and release to release assessment to be impossible.

16/30 = 533 per day. I don't know when 1.3 was, but even just the three month delay means 48k commits. Who knows how many changes per commit. Crazy numbers.

Oh but it was gonna be done with AI right? How's that going? I see...

It’s worth noting that in the ~2 weeks since this was published, Bun 1.4 was actually released. I don’t know how the release has gone.

Well considering the Zed Zig lang devs have quietly distanced themselves from the Bun maintainer due to, as the lang devs describe it, “cowboy bullshit and vibe coding”, I’m not surprised that vibe coding in another language isn’t going well either. Note that this project used to be a poster child for Zed Zig lang, but is now (through no fault of Zed Zig lang or the lang devs) effectively divorcing from it.

Edit: derp, lol

I’m an AI coding minimalist…like it for some tasks like creating unit tests and other tedium.

The bun saga of having AI do everything has been a fascinating horror show. Excited to see where it goes.

What was so special about Bun (at least the earlier version)? If it's so special, would someone fork it?