If an experiment goes wildly successful beyond imagination, rapid pivot is only natural.
Jarred earned the trust by providing value. People who say trust is reduced without actually seeing the result, never had trust to begin with.
It's not like they merged and dumped it on to the world immediately. It's available as canary. They are doing their own dog fooding. Prisma is using the canary successfully.
As long as oven team can deliver a zig version equivalent stable bun, it is a success in my book. After that they can focus on resolving as many unsafe as possible and then the real benefits will materialize.
Bun "contributor community", that provides significant amount of code contribution, is largely non-existent. Almost all of the work is done by Jarred and others at Oven. If someone still wants to contribute, they can do so on Rust. There is no reason to give warnings and plenty of time just to delay something like this when doing it rapidly is possible (now with AI).
Bun "user community", is not affected by this at all (yet) except the ai doomers/zig fanatics.
When v1.4.0 is fully released, and if Bun team can't get it to full feature (and no new serious bugs) parity with last zig version within a few versions (let's say v1.4.2), then there will be real effects.
I will be testing v140 after release. As a bun user community member, I expect no new type of crash, slightly faster perf/less memory usage and move on with my life.
A rewrite like this is unprecedented but doesn't mean impossible. I am cautiously optimistic.
Is there any precedent of rewriting a software, let alone in another language, retaining copyright by past contributors?
And this contribute to oss voluntarily but hold copyright and use it as some sort of leverage is bullshit, in my opinion. Don't contribute to someone else's project if your concern is copyright.
Discussion was not interesting. It was built on speculation as facts and lies as facts.
The worst is "hey they are running proprietary fork and not open source anymore" when the code is available in plain sight. Canary build is available with one command. The stupid article made a huge stink about it without this key fact. Now they added the update but damage is done.
Bun is just the js runtime tool. At worst, you'll get a crash. If you are worried about bun security while granting permissions to Claude code...your worries are placed in the wrong place.
Thats why. You don't have to go thru this extra check if you use EU passport or if you have temporary/permanent residency (but not travel visa) attached to your passport.
these doom and gloom reports also said half the land will be under water by now and average temperature will be 40c. Didn't happen.
Earth is in a cooler period and it will get very warm. These crappy climate change activists will not get anything done but to hold us back. We need more power, more tech, and more abundance of things. We will need to engineer our way out of real climate change.
So when they spend money to rent town area for marriage, it is a problem. When they spend money to actually do some work to make the world a better place, it is also a problem. The only good thing is donate money like bezos ex-wife and fuel the activists. Eff socialism.
A lot of people spent a LOT more money in every election for many candidates. Esp the democrats going over billions in 2020 (3B or something). Did you cry about electing Biden with 3B?
And if he spent only 300M and was able to elect president with it, more power to him. He must know something about efficiency as others spending so much more couldn't do it. Ridiculous points. I can bring them up too.
We'll develop faster and better tech. We'll find resources to feed that. Use that to build better. Access better resources. We'll mine asteroids. We'll harness much more from the sun. The factory must grow.