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so first it was rust rewrite bad. Then rewrite with ai can never work. Then it will be riddled with bugs. It'll crash. It'll take years to fix.

On the other hand, rewrite was mostly done in record time. New version added massive number of features. Also huge bug fixes. Being used by Claude code by millions of people. Successfully used by some others even in canary. After release, multiple companies immediately switched due to massive amounts of resource savings and performance gains (and publicly posted about it).

Can there still be problems? Yes, I'm sure there will be. But denying the feat Oven pulled off with Bun in last few months is nothing but phobia/fud.

Many people are already posted about testing new bun version and I have yet to see a single post where the issue is the latest versions of bun. In some cases people posted it doesn't work but that's due to node compatibility etc and it didn't work on previous version either.

One does not need to be bun fanatic to see and call things as they are.

PS: I like bun because I hate how js ecosystem requires 100s of packages to do anything and bun is aiming to include batteries. This is good.



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