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Re:Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good by aypineau on Thursday August 20, 2026 @05:47AM (#49372443)
I'm really skeptical about this rewrite I chose to adopt bun about a year ago, and I've honestly lost count of the number of issues i've submitted and the amount of time i've wasted dealing with them. If I had to make the choice again, I would probably stick with node and pnpm for serious projects We're constantly being sold on promises of -XX% ram usage, but in practice, it's often builds randomly failing for no apparent reason, memory leaks bringing applications down, and instability that ends up costing far more in engineering time than the resources saved That's why i'm worried that bun 1.4 could end up being a step backwards, once again putting into question the small amount of stability we've managed to achieve so far

But I still strongly believe the project makes a lot of sense, and I genuinely think these issues can be solved by 2028, if the project keeps its focus on stability instead of another SDK for SQL, web sockets, image compression, or whatever comes next

Re:Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good by owebmaster on Thursday August 20, 2026 @07:30AM (#49373182)
> But I still strongly believe the project makes a lot of sense, and I genuinely think these issues can be solved by 2028, if the project keeps its focus on stability instead of another SDK for SQL, web sockets, image compression, or whatever comes next

If you check the maintainer X, he's asking Claude for what features to implement next. Not only stabilizing isn't the priority, even the features implemented are random.

Re:Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good by andsoitis on Thursday August 20, 2026 @09:13AM (#49374176)
> If you check the maintainer X, he's asking Claude for what features to implement next.

Link?

Re:Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good by tipiirai on Thursday August 20, 2026 @09:19AM (#49374236)
Re:Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good by andsoitis on Thursday August 20, 2026 @09:58AM (#49374663)
Thanks. Seems pretty innocent to me.
Re:Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good by owebmaster on Thursday August 20, 2026 @12:23PM (#49376782)
What does innocent even mean in this context? I don't care if it's innocent. It is. Naivy too. But millions of people use the system and were expecting stability, not it to be a random AI experiment.
Re:Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good by locknitpicker on Thursday August 20, 2026 @09:54AM (#49374600)
> If you check the maintainer X, he's asking Claude for what features to implement next. Not only stabilizing isn't the priority, even the features implemented are random.

To me that sort of stunt sounds like blatant attempts to distract the audience away from relevant topics.

Re:Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good by hn_submit on Thursday August 20, 2026 @08:41AM (#49373838)
There's a lot riding on this. If the Bun rewrite fails it could lead to the U.S. and global financial system collapsing. Yes, incredible, but true.