Zig’s author, Andrew Kelley is out of line here.
> We made futile attempts to guide them towards better programming practices. There were a few exceptional heroes who did their very best in a dysfunctional company. You know who you are. But you can't stop a rising tide.
https://andrewkelley.me/post/my-thoughts-bun-rust-rewrite.ht...
So not only is Zig written by amateurs, but these amateurs also don’t know how to run a company?
Who is Andrew to say this, Oven got an exit. As far as their investors and owners are concerned that’s the only real reason to exist.
Assuming ( big assumption to be fair) all the early Bun employees got a fair amount of equity they’re all rich now. That’s a much better outcome than most startups.
At my first startup we had 6 day work weeks. I still remember staying up until 2 or 3am manually installing Postgres again and again. All we got was a paycheck. Although for me I went from a minimum wage earning college dropout to a 6 figure software engineer( at a new company).
As for actual coding… LLMs will always do better work in a well known stable language than something relatively new.
I had to give up on trying to get LLMs to write working Haxe code. Haxe is too niche for LLMs to handle.
I personally can’t stand Rust, it feels like it’s designed for machines to write. Zig is designed for humans. Outside of a 200k+ job offer you won’t see me learning Rust.
Zig is rather pleasant. I can imagine writing a side project with it.
Finally, my QA background is screaming in rage. You expect me to trust a project that you basically vibe coded in a week as a key part of my workflow?
You know it works because the automated tests ( which I guess you also vibe coded) pass ?
By that logic say I don’t like Rust, can I spend a few thousand in Fable tokens and ship DinnerRoll( Bun in D).
Is that enough to raise a VC round?