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Why not just try it yourself?

Nice try Meta stock holder!

> how have the last few months not looked good for Bun, exactly?

The article answers this. hint: they're not shipping.

> I get it, you don't like AI or you like Zig over Rust, or whatever

The article doesn't argue for either of these. hint: it's arguing that the team is not shipping.

> Terrible argument, and not really an argument at all.

It's an argument for the devs not shipping

> I agree, so look at the code and point out what's wrong with it.

It's not being shipped.

Hope that helps.

Just a quick reminder that you don't need to put up any cookie banners at all if you simply don't track your users in a privacy-invading way.

> So even the romantic idea of retiring in quaint village is predicated on not getting sick.

Grew up in a village. What you do is... drive to another village / town. There are always doctors to be found - and less queues than in big cities.

Wired earbuds were great until they got caught on some piece of clothing and got ripped out.

Bunny is EU-based afaik, the ones you mention are not.

> but it's also the fastest way to support Mac, Windows, and Linux all at once.

Flutter exists too, and supports iOS and Android in addition to the desktop OSes. The dev time is pretty fast too imo.

That said, idk how the performance compares to Electron or Native apps.

As a small team, optimizing for "actually getting the thing shipped" is so much better than optimizing for speed anyway.

This is Meta. You will always be the product. This is like asking us to tip them in addition to all the horrible things they're doing either way.

Neovim comes to mind. It uses clang as the core, and luajit as the extension layer on top.

> Cloudflare Durable Objects really is generous, not often can you get replicated database and realtime sync for such low barrier in cost and implementation.

BEAM gives it to you for free, and you don't rely on an Internet-scale monopoly to run it.

Not OP, but TS (as in TypeScript, right?) is not even in the same universe as Elixir with Phoenix when it comes to building backend services.

It's a very productive and readable programming language with excellent documentation and conventions, and the most ergonomic way of handling concurrent operations (thanks BEAM) I've encountered.

The VM it runs on was originally designed for telephone switches, which, it turns out, cleanly translates to the internet/http era.

It makes it trivial to do soft-realtime because it's just actors (GenServers) passing messages.

I invite you (and others) to try it out and do a small weekend project. It'll make you reconsider reaching for TS on the backend :)

I'm so confused by the picture. He's looking at a tiny phone screen when there's a proper display right next to him.