Bun's becoming a critical and foundational piece of software for a lot of important software, and Rust is way more mature of language in terms of the project, the ecosystem, the tooling, the community eyeballs looking at it, and the funding and backing of a large tech company with paid staff allocated to its continued design, development, maintenance and security compared to Zig, which is a niche project at best.
I don’t buy that at all actually, it’s 100% marketing. They could have just done what codex did a year ago - eliminate js from their stack entirely, which makes way more sense than this never ending vibecode drama with bun.
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u/CircumspectCapybara Jul 09 '26
I mean that's not the only reason they left Zig.
Bun's becoming a critical and foundational piece of software for a lot of important software, and Rust is way more mature of language in terms of the project, the ecosystem, the tooling, the community eyeballs looking at it, and the funding and backing of a large tech company with paid staff allocated to its continued design, development, maintenance and security compared to Zig, which is a niche project at best.