My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite

This is the same kind of insecure nonsense that is busily destroying WordPress.

There is no coming back from this. Zig is a dead man walking.

Zig already suffered from:

incomplete after 8 years still-shifting language APIs increasingly erratic behavior from project founder / lead: "no AI!" "we hate Microsoft!"

Who now is going to trust THAT to build significant projects on?

I'm sorry, Andrew, "chill people doing cool things" is not going to convince anyone to build half million line projects using Zig.

All evidence is that your intention is not to create a stable, useful programming language that allows users to express code in useful ways other languages can't. (The only reason to create a new programming language).

It seems to be about ego for you, and what is clear from this post, is that your ego was bruised by Bun moving to Rust; and that you are willing to act in ways harmful to yourself, your credibility, your project, AND therefore to ALL OF YOUR PROJECT'S USERS.

When your updated post mentions your "resentment", I thought you had understood your error. But no, you're compounding it. You claim to have resentment becuase Jarred "make you look bad"? You make yourself look bad all by yourself.

Here's the real likely resentment: Jarred and you started around the same time. Jarred has had an incredibly successful, beneficial turn of events - and you have not.

You are clearly resentful over Jarred's success.

Jarred bent over backwards in his post not to throw you under the bus, but the truth seems to be that he got sick of your sh!t. This isn't about a single blog post by you - though that was truly demented. It's clear this is part of a pattern of self-destructive behavior that's been going on a long time.

And here's the real kicker:

Whereas in the past, as Jarred notes, changing the language a project was written in was something you just didn't do past a certain point. But now, it's possible to do it, and do it well, with tools available to everyone.

After this act of self-sabotage, if there is a single major project still in Zig at the end of 2026, I will be very surprised. If you ever again get a major donation from any source, I will be very surprised.

(update: I've never used Zig, Rust, or Bun, so I have no dog at all in this hunt)

The content here is the issue. Bun converted their codebase from Zig to Rust, citing specific technical mismatches of Bun using Zig. The response is that Jarred was rumored to be bad at his job, Jarred was mean to people, and Zig didn't like dealing with Bun anyway because of their sloppy code. Maybe all of this is honest, but it's too convenient.