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0 pointsButtons8402y ago0 comments

Bun might be a cool project, but them building on an immature language like Zig makes me wonder where their priorities are.

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ricardobeat2y ago

It wouldn't exist any other way, the story is that it was built with speed as a priority, and Zig was chosen for the performance optimizations it enables.

Buttons840OP2y ago

There are several other languages that could achieve the same speed and performance optimizations. To be clear, I hope to see Zig succeed and I'd like to learn it one day. It reminds me of the video game engine question, only in this case it would be: do you want to build a product, or do you want to build something with Zig? I imagine the creators of Bun answered "we want to use Zig" as their first priority, and that's great, I hope they have fun.

ojosilva2y ago

At one point, the Rust team switched away from the performant Jemalloc allocator to something more widely compatible (the system default). They chose to sacrifice performance in the sake of compatibility/stability. It's still available, but optional.

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/jemalloc-was-just-removed-...

Insane performance gains, like the ones we see early in Zig, is something that can be easily eaten away by the natural evolution and maturity of a programming language.

Btw, Zig is beating trees with a stick to see what may fall down in this area: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/12484

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spacechild12y ago

> with speed as a priultimat

They could have just used C++ or Rust. Not saying that they shouldn't use Zig, just questioning speed as the (primary) motivation

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