Re:The Zig project is going nowhere
by dleslie on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:09AM
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The response to Bun switching to Rust use what cemented my decision never to use Zig again.
I bought the book, I started projects, but I was wary of committing for the reasons stated in the article: the instability of the language, the capricious decision making of its leadership, and the evident concern for in-group purity over project well-being.
It's more a toy of a small community of like-minded developers than a product for general consumption.
So when Bun switched and they responded as they did the project confirmed that they aren't interested in serving the open market for developers, they're only interested in building something for themselves. Which is fine so long as all you're producing is the compiler; because all users, even those in their in-group, are subject to the stability problems with the language.
> The post criticized Bun's engineering practices, management, development culture, and business decisions. It described the foundation as relieved that the relationship was over and treated Bun as a liability (a term the Zig project seems particularly fond of when justifying its caprices). And all this in response to a project that had spent years using Zig, publicly promoting it, contributing to its ecosystem, and donating substantial amounts of money to its development.
They may as well have made their repos private and put up a notice on their website stating that they aren't interested in having users, please kindly withhold further inquiries.
I bought the book, I started projects, but I was wary of committing for the reasons stated in the article: the instability of the language, the capricious decision making of its leadership, and the evident concern for in-group purity over project well-being.
It's more a toy of a small community of like-minded developers than a product for general consumption.
So when Bun switched and they responded as they did the project confirmed that they aren't interested in serving the open market for developers, they're only interested in building something for themselves. Which is fine so long as all you're producing is the compiler; because all users, even those in their in-group, are subject to the stability problems with the language.
> The post criticized Bun's engineering practices, management, development culture, and business decisions. It described the foundation as relieved that the relationship was over and treated Bun as a liability (a term the Zig project seems particularly fond of when justifying its caprices). And all this in response to a project that had spent years using Zig, publicly promoting it, contributing to its ecosystem, and donating substantial amounts of money to its development.
They may as well have made their repos private and put up a notice on their website stating that they aren't interested in having users, please kindly withhold further inquiries.