alt Hacker News> I have no dog in this fight, I don't use Zig, Rust, Bun or Claude, and initially I thought the bun rewrite sounded like a terrible idea
I'm exactly the same person as you, yet I still think Zig's post wasn't a "hit piece" at all, at least how I understand that term to be. They outlined the history from their point of view, talked about what they didn't like with how Jarred acted and worked, said they were happy about them moving to Rust, then basically said "Good riddance".
Everything is so drama-amplified nowadays, nothing can just be "They're a different person, they work in a way I don't like, but I'm happy they found a better language, good riddance" and that's it, no, instead this is a "hit piece" "trying to assassinate someone's Good Character" and what not... It's so tiring.
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Here are the highlights of the supposed "they work in a way I don't like" disagreement:
> I described him as someone who had strong "beginner energy"
> groomed from a young age into uncritically embracing the Silicon Valley mindset
> Jarred was a stinky manager. Poor communication, unrealistic expectations, low empathy, no experience. Just a total shit show
> We became increasingly horrified at the programming practices we saw in Bun's codebase. Hacks on top of hacks
> Jarred was already writing slop well before he had access to LLMs
> While I resent Jarred for making Bun into an embarassment for Zig
And what is even the point of saying that Andrew dislikes how Jarred acts and works?
Let's say the supervisor wants you to write a new microservice. Do you refuse to do it because the supervisor smokes cigarettes and you're an anti-smoker? I think that if you have objections, you should refuse only on technical grounds, not personal.
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>talked about what they didn't like with how Jarred acted and worked
Gossip and hearsay; the "grapevine".
Besides, what does it matter how a language user does business?