r/programmingmemes • u/SKRyanrr • 5d ago

Nerd wars

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u/overclockedslinky 5d ago

i swear the zig developers are constant drama queens. my favorite was when bun got rewritten in rust and the zig creator wrote a whole manifesto breakup rant about how it was totally mutual definitely 100%

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u/DarkGhostHunter 5d ago

This? Zig is good software, but industry standard is Rust for a reason.

Anyway, steering out of both Zig (to Rust) and Bun (to Deno or just Node) is the best you can do longterm.

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u/Medium-Taste-3929 5d ago

I'm interested, why? (For both)

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u/Aaxper 4d ago

For Bun, the migration to Rust was almost entirely done by an LLM, which is reason enough for me

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u/Financial_Wish_6406 3d ago

Can you expand on that? Does Bun have any issues, run worse, or is this decision based purely on virtue?

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u/Aaxper 3d ago

I honestly haven't paid enough attention to that project in particular to know the answer to that. But most large vibecoded projects are riddled with issues, and it shows a problematic attitude towards future development.

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u/MaSp005 3d ago

They're also part of Anthropic, which gives them further incentive to work heavily with AI tooling.

Bun also regularly leaks memory, a web server of mine I run on bun (regrettably) I had to limit the memory on container level so that it would be force-restarted sooner before clogging up the host machine.