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> Now with AI doing this work is a minute ... Frameworks and dependencies made and replaced by custom "ground-up" creations is now a plausible reality.

"You only have to want it and believe in it, then it will succeed."

- Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin

"The airship [is] the future of commercial air transport in general."

- Dr. Hugo Eckener

"The age of the airship is no longer a dream of the future; it is a reality of the present. Giant dirigibles will soon cross every ocean, making obsolete the slow surface ships of today."

- Popular Mechanics, December 1929

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There were hundreds of such misplaced tech hopes, and hundreds that did become true - all those "visionary" quotes of newspapers talking about video calling and remote libraries. Would have anyone advocated a Rust rewrite of Bun before? The community would have frowned upon the idea, saying the effor would never be worth it. And now here we are.

I'm not saying use custom html elements because we can. But if somehow a html button is a valid technical problem, it can be reasonably done well for the scope of that app.

> Would have anyone advocated a Rust rewrite of Bun before?

That’s hardly a “tech hope” or “visionary”. Dirigibles continue to be interesting and fascinating to new generations, even if just as a concept; the language used to write a JavaScript runtime is uninteresting and unimportant in the scheme of things.

> The community would have frowned upon the idea, saying the effor would never be worth it. And now here we are.

Here we are where? Is the Rust release out yet? Didn’t it have tens of thousands of `unsafe` blocks? What’s so great about it? At this point in time, even implying the transition was a success is the same as calling the Hindenburg or the Titanic a success. You’ve seen the thing exists but have no idea how it’ll perform in the real world under real scrutiny and real scenarios. Perhaps that wouldn’t matter had much of Bun was just an internal project used by just one company, but it isn’t.

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