That's odd, because of the visibility of team Bun using the language, one would think they could get whatever help and guidance they asked for. Seems weird for team Bun to complain about crashes, leaks, and bugs if they could have what they are doing wrong explained to them or their issues fixed in a timely manner.

This maneuver was arguably obfuscated by the anti-LLM stance and finger pointing at Microsoft, but nevertheless, many still have noticed. Zig, for a long time, had been falling behind and doing poorly on their open to close ratio for resolving issues. It should be embarrassing to leave so many issues open.

Even if not accepting new GitHub issues, they have demonstrated an inability to resolve existing issues, except at an extremely slow pace. Considering there are just about no new issues on their GitHub repo, it is understandable if there are those that find the pace to close and amount of issues unacceptable or questionable, in addition to the clearly bad open to close ratio.

Teenagers, at that level of intelligence or are that determined, will find ways to circumvent whatever control mechanisms a parent or school is attempting to use. At some point, it is a matter of the teenager respecting their parents and rules. Same for if you told a teenager do not drink and drive. You can setup all kinds of technical barriers to block drunk teenagers from driving, but if they are that "smart", those committed to bad behavior or law breaking will find ways.

These measures taken by the EU and other government entities has always been about surveillance, censorship, control, and eliminating freedom of speech and association. People need to keep calling out this continual deception and attempt to erode freedoms.

Zig is still under development and beta. Stability, crashes, and leaks should not be surprising, and even expected. To stick with a beta language, usually companies and developers are philosophically and/or financially aligned with the language. An example is JangaFX and Odin, where they not only have committed to using the language (despite being beta) in their products, but have directly hired GingerBill.

Team Bun appears to have "alignment and relationship issues" with Zig, to the point they have decided to extensively explore their options. Now Bun is rewritten in Rust. They are seeing if Rust solves their requirements. As with any relationship, if one ignores or takes a partner for granted, don't be surprised if they want a divorce or jump to someone else.

> It’s engineering.

Significantly, but not totally. The marketing value can't be ignored.

Seems like their luck finally ran out. For the longest time, they were getting all kinds of passes, as if a post 1.0 language, that others don't get. 10 years is quite a long time not to hit 1.0 or still be into beta breaking changes. Though I think that (the luck) was significantly aided by their perpetual and odd HN boosting.

> While bounds checking, improved argument passing, typed pointers, proper strings and arrays are an improvement over C, it still suffers from use after free cases.

While Zig was a bit safer and more modern C alternative, safety was arguably not so much their selling point. Plenty of other C alternative languages are equally or more safe. Dlang and Vlang, both now having optional GCs and ownership, are examples.

Unless team Bun had some type of philosophical or financial allegiance to Zig, which they appear not to, it shouldn't be surprising that they jumped to some other language (Rust in this case).

> this makes it look like they don't understand what they are doing

Think it's more a matter of Zig not being able to deliver nor meet their requirements. That they may have got tired of Zig, so felt it was time to switch to something else, is their prerogative. Especially with having near unlimited tokens to blow.

Among the problems is not being able to look in the mirror. There are those that don't realize, "when you point one finger, there are three fingers point back at you".

It's not quite nationalism or maybe the term is being used as a disguise for something else, if those in power believe 50% or even the majority of their own population is not worth worrying about, should be "thrown away", or "removed". Out of control elitism and corruption, combined with lack of empathy and narcissism, can very easily undermine human rights, freedom, and national progress.

1) https://github.com/vlang/v (Vlang)

2) https://github.com/odin-lang/odin (Odin)

3) https://github.com/goplus/xgo (Xgo, formerly Goplus)

4) https://github.com/borgo-lang/borgo (Borgo)

5) https://github.com/mitchellh/gox (Gox)

6) https://github.com/MadAppGang/dingo (Dingo)

7) https://github.com/ivov/lisette (Lisette)

8) https://github.com/anzellai/sky (Sky)

9) https://github.com/halcyonnouveau/soppo (Soppo)

It was always a risky proposition to use Zig, unless those persons were philosophically committed to help the language develop or die-hard fans. If not, them jumping to some other language, should not be so big of a surprise.

They may come to the conclusion that Zig is incapable of delivering on its promises or is deficient at satisfying their requirements.