JetBrains interviews Andrew Kelley about Zig [video]
Posted by Cool_Technician_6380@reddit | programming | View on Reddit | 4 comments
Posted by Cool_Technician_6380@reddit | programming | View on Reddit | 4 comments
crusoe@reddit
Well apparently it did because Bun was rewritten in Rust due to hard to track down memory bugs. Bun was supposed to be a big win for Zig.
Asyncrosaurus@reddit
And the rust code is littered with unsafe blocks, the Rust version has not been vetted and there's no guarantee it'll actually be better long term than zig. Don't buy the hype, the only reason it was re-written in Rust is because Zig took a firm no AI stance, and Bun is owned by anthropic.
Writing Bun in Zig was already a mistake from the start, because it was too immature to fully commit on the large scale. Zig is not guaranteeing backwards comparability, and it's stability is tied to the whims of Andrew Kelley.
WanderingStoner@reddit
Huge loss for Zig. Bun is insane. Typescript without Node is the future.
FirefighterAntique70@reddit
"Why a programming language doesn't need AI"
What even is that statement?
"Why pomogranite fruits don't need a resutrant (YET)" is an equally absurd statement...