My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite
A critique of Jarred, the creator of the Bun runtime, discusses his transition from an open-source contributor to a venture-backed startup founder. The author argues that the pressure of VC funding has negatively impacted the project's community-driven ethos.
When Jarred joined the Zig community about 5 years ago, I described him as someone who had strong "beginner energy". That is, he moved fast and tried a lot of different stuff, jumping head first into problems that he was not yet equipped to solve, leading to mediocre outcomes in terms of engineering, but learning a whole heck of a lot in the process. I see it as quite a healthy attitude, particularly for young people and students. This is the best way to level up and learn new things.
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