This is the exact reason I stopped using Bun for new projects.
Terrible project governance.
TS 7 is a good example of what a responsible team that cares about their users should have done.
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Terrible project governance.
TS 7 is a good example of what a responsible team that cares about their users should have done.
Other features can easily be copied (eg Claude Code, ChatGPT, etc).
If AI services are a commodity then they can only compete on price.
Photoshop and Illustrator CS6 were the last good versions. Very snappy and with probably 99% of the features I use today. Everything slowly degraded when they moved to the subscription model which I've been paying since 2013.
Apple Silicon support was really bad for a couple of years (tons of GPU issues in Illustrator) but I will admit it's better now.
The worst offender is Creative Cloud. I remember their Sync crap couldn't even be removed from Finder at one point. Even today whenever you use an Adobe app a dozen processes will spawn in your computer and remain there even if you disallow any background stuff in macOS.
The buildings will last for years, decades even, but the GPUs need to be replaced every 2-3 years in perpetuity.
I've gone back to Node.
There was a poll on r/bun with about 2000 votes and only about 30% of users voting they were going to use the Rust version. Can't seem to find it now.
Edit:
The poll was deleted
https://www.reddit.com/r/bun/comments/1u3j4d7/are_you_going_...
And those prices are still subsidized. OpenAI, Anthropic, etc are nowhere close to generating profits.
From the outside it looks like they barely have resources to keep Firefox competitive.
It's pretty much impossible in a project of this size. IIRC Postgres has over 1M loc.
Not sure which is worse.
Anthropic is not exactly the hallmark of engineering excellence... quite the contrary.
> But yes, of course there will be new bugs
Obviously, which is why more thought should have been put into the transition.
Not everyone will want to yolo their production projects into such a massive rewrite overnight.
Do we know 100% for certain that this isn't the case? No.
In fact it would be naive to think a rewrite of this magnitude wouldn't introduce new bugs and/or unexpected changes in behavior.
> Nothing to me suggests they’re being careless here.
Plenty of reasons suggest this including the lack of an LTS or any kind of thought put into such a massive transition.
> Or are you expecting open source maintainers to do free work for no particular reason?
Free work? Last I heard Anthropic had acquired Bun.
It would be naive to think there aren't new bugs or changes in behavior introduced in 1.4.
What has pushed me back to Node is seeing how amateurish the transition has been handled.
- No LTS support for the Zig version regarding CVEs etc.
- Huge bugs like the 3MB memory leak mentioned in the blog post abandoned in the Zig version to basically force people into the Rust version to fix their apps in production.
- Zero involvement with the Bun community about such a major decision. One day it was "stop the drama I'm just playing with this" and a couple of days later "yolo merged to main".
Jarred basically keeps operating as if he was a lone hacker working on his personal project.
Furthermore, there's no mention of an LTS plan for the Zig version. It seems that if a CVE is discovered in the future, Bun users will no have no option than to update to the Rust port.
This is not how you run a project that others depend on and enough for me to not touch Bun ever again.
So essentially this whole re-write was about making Bun LLM compatible.
Astro has gone from 247 deps in v6 to 190 in v7.
Sure the Xbox division wasn't doing amazing but still had $24B of revenue in 2025. For reference PlayStation made $30B that same year.
That’s like a gas station saying they have 90% margin over pumps but still losing money.