Bun v1.3.14 might be the last version in Zig

bpierre 22 points 10 comments May 11, 2026
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nih567

This is not surprising, considering that the acquiring company's entire business plan is based on burning more tokens.

ksec

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

tempaccount420

Is it just me or are the Zig zealots actually somehow more annoying than Rust zealots? Many weird takes since the past week...

classicposter

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...

jaredcwhite

Are we surprised that a project bought out by an AI company wants to vibe code a new AI-sloppified runtime? (The comments of "it's basically the same codebase" are so laughable as to feel like intentional gaslighting. Are we really that stupid?)

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