I find comments like this fascinating, because you're implicitly evaluating a counterfactual where Bun was built with Rust (or some other "interesting" language). Maybe Bun would be better if it were built in Rust. But maybe it would have been slower (either at runtime or development speed) and not gotten far enough along to be acquired by one of the hottest companies in the world. There's no way to know. Why did Anthropic choose Bun instead of Deno, if Deno is written in a better language?
Don't engage with this guy, he shows up in every one of these threads to pattern match back to his heyday without considering any of the nuance of what is actually different this time.
Because maybe they reached out to them, and they didn't took the money, while Bun folks business model wasn't working out?
Who knows?
Besides, how are they going to get back the money spent on the acquisition?
Many times the answer to acquisitions has nothing to do with technology.