RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewrk/116889478874166045
If you know of Zig and Bun, this is a fascinating read and feels… soul cleansing
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@joethephish I don’t know, all of this is incredibly muddled by the proxy war being waged concerning use of AI, and corporate sponsorship of open source. I can see it from everybody’s side
@[email protected] Having some contacts in the Zig community and having used Bun on a couple of projects, it all rings extremely true to what I would have guessed from the outside. Andrew's tone (for me at least) manages to be both classy and honest about the frustrations which is an impressive line to walk.
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@mavnn yup exactly! I wasn’t aware of the slop but it all makes a lot of sense. Andrew was truthful but respectful / balanced
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@[email protected] Yeah, and the experience of using Bun matches his comments about pre-slop quality and attitude: it had a bunch of rapidly expanding, genuinely useful features that ran really fast... when they worked at all. And a bunch of table stakes things you'd expect to work but didn't, and occasional really weird bugs.
Not a bad tradeoff for rapidly exploring a new problem space, but I'd not recommend starting a production project with Bun - which is a bummer, because features like 'compile JS to a native binary across multiple platforms out of the box' are genuinely great.
