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Capricorn2481today at 3:08 AM0 repliesview on HN

April 26th - Bun announces they used AI to fork Zig so they could make an optimization for a 4x improvement

April 27th - Zig contributor mlugg clarifies why the specific optimizations Bun did were ill advised and wouldn't have been accepted in Zig, regardless of AI use [1]

May 4 - Bun is looking into Rust as an alternative.

This, to me, seems like total whiplash. Has anyone at Bun made a statement on why they're making such dramatic changes? It seems like the lesson to internalize from mlugg is not "switch to Rust"

[1] https://lobste.rs/s/ifcyr1/contributor_poker_zig_s_ai_ban#c_...