It is yet to be determined whether or not the bun rewrite is a success, though.
I do have to agree with the author about Jarred's false claims about release dates though. Really not sure why he keeps doing that.
The most obvious benefit Rust can give them is being safe from memory leaks. This is hardly controversial: it has been a Zig design choice that memory leaks are the developer/user's responsibility. They have already demonstrated to have fixed several of those [0].
Marketing-wise, it has been an obvious success. Dunno if that matters.
That’s not like … a design flaw or something, just a common class of error Rust can’t save you from.
What's interesting tho it's that it can go from apparent marketing success to a big failure as the release keeps getting postponed.
Seems pretty simple to me: if the software works, the port has been successful.
If this is unsatisfactory, another way to think about the question is to ask "what would make you conclude it has failed?" That requires a sharp choice.