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by locknitpicker·28d ago·view on hn ↗
> Why does changing to Rust kill the project? I don't understand the point here.

I'm concerned that the complete rewrite in an entirely different language is not a sound technical decision and instead is a ploy to shed copyright claims from past contributors.

Now, based on comments from this thread, the formerly FLOSS project is somehow granting special access to a corporation that apparently is invested in going way out of their way to push implementations that consume the complete rewrite before the world has access to it.

I for one won't be touching Bun. This doesn't pass the smell test. It feels like a bait-and-switch in progress.

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> I'm concerned that the complete rewrite in an entirely different language is not a sound technical decision…

Even if this was a terrible technical decision, it is a good, maybe even unavoidable, business decision. And I don’t think moving to Rust was a bad technical decision at all, given Zig is unstable and constantly changing, and that it’s not memory safe, which is a big problem for something like a JS runtime!

The reason it’s a necessary business decision is that Bun is owned by an AI company and Zig has a policy to not accept AI assisted contributions, making it impossible for Anthropic to contribute to a language that is still evolving rapidly, not to mention the bad marketing of using a language that basically is hostile to your product.

A lot of hypotheticals, conjecture, speculation, personal feels devoid of any facts. That somehow kills the project. ok!
> A lot of hypotheticals, conjecture, speculation, personal feels devoid of any facts.

No,not really. There is only one point: does Bun acknowledge that past contributors still hold copyright over the Rust rewrite?

Is there any precedent of rewriting a software, let alone in another language, retaining copyright by past contributors?

And this contribute to oss voluntarily but hold copyright and use it as some sort of leverage is bullshit, in my opinion. Don't contribute to someone else's project if your concern is copyright.

of course they also gave away their own claim to be the copyright owner, but that's neither here nor there ; )