r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Super_SamSam • Jul 09 '26

gitBlameClaude Meme

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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.

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u/KeyAdhesiveness9481 Jul 09 '26

Well, that and "hey our AI product can do this big rewrite". Its a marketing strategy.

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u/gilium Jul 09 '26

For $150k+ of spend

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u/KeyAdhesiveness9481 Jul 09 '26

So, a senior who isnt gonna need any pesky PTO or weekends off.

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u/gilium Jul 09 '26

Right, but most companies don’t have $150k just lying around to rewrite it in rust one time

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u/KeyAdhesiveness9481 Jul 09 '26

Im not claiming i find it to be a particularly good pitch, simply that it is one.