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Buttons840yesterday at 11:59 PM1 replyview on HN

I've always felt [0] the people who created Bun had, as their first and foremost goal, a desire to use Zig--and that's great, I like Zig, I like when people build things their own way.

However, I've been skeptical of using Bun, because I want a project whose first and foremost goal is to build good tools that achieve the objectives of the project.

It reminds me of asking game developers: Do you want to build a game, or do you want to build a game engine? Building a game engine is fine, but if you're goal is to make a game, then building an engine is a poor way of achieving your goals.

Likewise, I've wondered if the creators of Bun wanted to build better JavaScript tools, or if they wanted to use Zig.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35970044


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ameliaquiningtoday at 12:09 AM

So does that mean the rewrite made you less skeptical?

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