Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good?

I've been a heavy user of Bun since 2022. The last three months of their public timeline have not looked good, so I wanted to summarize my frustration

> The last three months have not looked good for Bun.

Apart from pro-AI or anti-AI posturing how have the last few months not looked good for Bun, exactly? I use it daily and I've seen basically zero regressions. I get it, you don't like AI or you like Zig over Rust, or whatever. I just haven't seen any serious argument that Bun has somehow become worse software.

> The project has over 5k open pull requests, which is the largest number of pull requests I’ve seen.

Terrible argument, and not really an argument at all.

> The biggest worry is, of course, the code itself.

I agree, so look at the code and point out what's wrong with it.

Insofar as Andrew Kelley is concerned, it's obvious he has an axe to grind and is salty about Bun embarassing Zig (which he freely admits). Not sure why you'd invoke an unreliable narrator as some sort of final nail in the coffin.

Unused code is one issue. A project called Buz[1] found over 11,000 lines of dead code from the Rust port.

[1]: https://github.com/jazzzooo/buz

Based on my experience so far, code written by today’s frontier LLM is generally trustworthy, though it still requires human oversight.

> how have the last few months not looked good for Bun, exactly?

The article answers this. hint: they're not shipping.

> I get it, you don't like AI or you like Zig over Rust, or whatever

The article doesn't argue for either of these. hint: it's arguing that the team is not shipping.

> Terrible argument, and not really an argument at all.

It's an argument for the devs not shipping

> I agree, so look at the code and point out what's wrong with it.

It's not being shipped.

Hope that helps.