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Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good (tipiirai.com)
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The last three months have not looked good for Bun. It started as one of the most impressive individual engineering projects I have seen, but has now turned into this weird AI-powered creature with continuous false promises and an increasingly frustrated community.

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[-] TehPers@beehaw.org 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I couldn't afford to do it on a project only intended for me to use. It takes "throw money at the problem" to a different level. For the same cost, he could have put up bounties and gotten open source devs excited about the port.

Edit: meant to respond to a different comment. Whatever lol.

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