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“... it seems unlikely he would ship this rewrite if it didn’t meet his quality bar” is every bit as vibes-based as the decision you are critiquing.

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Jared has shipped a lot of things that have impressed me. His software is measurably faster than the alternatives, and I have measured it. It runs code that Node et al can't run, and I have tried. These are normal, everyday experiences with software - based in fact, not vibes. I'm not going to argue every decision he's ever made is amazing, but his decisions have historically tracked above average.

He plays around with a toy project in a separate branch, tells everybody to relax that's just an experiment that has no chance of being merged, then abruptly merges 1m lines of code not seen by a human, effectively zeroing out all the contributions ever made by anyone to bun, including contributions in progress.

At the same time, his arguments in favor of Rust are sound, there is no doubt about that.

>that's just an experiment that has no chance of being merged

Yeah he never said that.

> This whole thread is an overreaction. 302 comments about code that does not work. We haven’t committed to rewriting. There’s a very high chance all this code gets thrown out completely.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019226

Is your reading comprehension poor? Where in that does it say it had no chance of being merged? Do you understand what an experiment and what the purpose of an experiment is ?

Here is him saying that in words that could be interpreted as ‘this is just an experiment’: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019226

Right he said it was an experiment. Nowhere did he say there was no chance of it being merged. Do people not understand what an experiment is?

Of course he's not writing a legal contract, but to go from saying:

> This whole thread is an overreaction. 302 comments about code that does not work. We haven’t committed to rewriting. There’s a very high chance all this code gets thrown out completely.

And then fully merging into main in under 18 days is quite extreme

> It runs code that Node et al can't run

What kind of code can't node run?

Bun supports import and require together in the same file https://bun.com/docs/runtime/module-resolution#using-import-...

So, you're fanboying?

If we're gonna fight, lets go xbox vs playstation. Javscript runtimes are a snoozefest.

Stating e.g. "Bun is more performant than Node [along a particular benchmark]" is not a fanboy statement. It's a statement of measurable fact.

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