If anything this seems to be a huge victory for Zig, since Bun is mostly written in Zig.
That’s just what the Javascript ecosystem has been missing! A runtime built on an unstable pre-1.0 language to go with the npm dependency churn. It’s been way too long since I’ve had to waste a week debugging what turns out to be a compiler/interpreter bug.
(I’m half joking, that’s awesome for Zig!)
Rushing things to completion using unfinished code is the JavaScript way!
- a javascript developer
These are completely different. Agents (aside from the model inference) are not CPU bound. You gain much more by having a wider user base than whatever marginal CPU cycles you would gain in Rust/Go.
Video games are of course a different story.
My thinking is that they’re trying to capture that market for JavaScript before another AI company does. To put it bluntly they want to capture the revenue generated by writing JavaScript code, which is currently being captured by independent JavaScript developers. The reason for a JavaScript is that is the most ubiquitous language, and id guess there are more jobs available for JS/node than any other language.
Of course, as a JavaScript developer, this may just be my paranoia. <sweats profusely>