Bun v1.3.14 might be the last version in Zig

More like RIP bun. Wouldn't have paid any attention bun if it weren't for Zig. Now I need to figure out what the "normal" runtime is to switch my work typescript stuff to.

Re: Bun v1.3.14 might be the last version in Zig

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Post by kristoff_it » Mon, May 11, 2026, 4:32 PM UTC

akagusu wrote: post #4

RIP Zig.

Zig has been doing fine before Bun and will be fine also after.

I'm personally thankful to Jarred & Bun for supporting Zig Software Foundation financially before they got acquired by Anthropic, but the reality of interacting with individuals in the Zig community is that the people who actually show up to Zig events and who do have compelling open source projects are almost never people who were interested in Zig because of Bun.

Bun did give us a bunch of visibility, but most of it was superficial interest.

Understandably, Bun is a JS runtime and so the people who discovered Zig that way were likely interested in doing webdev, and Zig is just now polishing the I/O implementation, so it doesn't have yet a particularly compelling web development experience to offer.

Re: Bun v1.3.14 might be the last version in Zig

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Post by tempaccount420 » Mon, May 11, 2026, 6:26 PM UTC

Is it just me or are the Zig zealots actually somehow more annoying than Rust zealots?

Many weird takes since the past week...

Re: Bun v1.3.14 might be the last version in Zig

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Post by szmarczak » Mon, May 11, 2026, 7:11 PM UTC

ksec wrote: post #3

So this went from people are over reacting to they are not over reacting? I wonder if Tigerbeetle or Ghostty are next?

Zig not having destructors was a mistake.

Re: Bun v1.3.14 might be the last version in Zig

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Post by classicposter » Mon, May 11, 2026, 7:14 PM UTC

Porting TypeScript to Go and coreutils to Rust is understandable given their legitimate background. However, this is just a slop. The original code and tests are of poor quality, so the only thing that can be fixed is segmentation faults...