Programming

In the past month, 15.8k commits came from "robobun," 1.6k commits from "autofix-ci[bot]," and 790 commits from Jarred.

No chance anybody is reviewing those. Worse, nobody else can reasonably inspect or review changes. I suspect even from release to release, you're looking basically at a new codebase, the next release invalidating all your previous assessment, and release to release assessment to be impossible.

16/30 = 533 per day. I don't know when 1.3 was, but even just the three month delay means 48k commits. Who knows how many changes per commit. Crazy numbers.

Oh but it was gonna be done with AI right? How's that going? I see...

Looks like Bun 1.4 is out now: https://bun.com/blog/bun-v1.4

Jarred was already writing slop well before he had access to LLMs.

Oof, that explains everything

Homie probably went "Claude, rewrite this in rust" and left. Bit off too much. Dont listen to the AI companies, these things cannot be on their own.

Meanwhile, we have an entire ecosystem of JS tools being written in Rust that are absolutely amazing, including oxc, rolldown, biome, and so on. They're not awesome because they're written in Rust though, but because actual thought and effort was put into making them great. They could have been written in any language (see: eslint, prettier, vite, tsgo, and so on).

Bun was never behind for being written in Zig, but was actually pushed forward by the language to accomplish what would have been far more difficult to do in C.

What killed it was when Bun stopped committing human effort in favor of mass-produced slop. Where I used to recommend Bun, I now just recommend pnpm/Node.js.

As an aside, I've been using Boa as an embedded runtime recently, and I've been loving it. It doesn't have the performance of other options, but it's good enough™ and still has room to improve.

I am sure the project will be dead in a year