jrpelkonen

By all accounts, TigerBeetle has been a tremendous success, congratulations! My understanding is that it has a deliberately fixed scope, which makes me wonder: how applicable would TigerStyle be in more general-purpose applications? If the system needs to, say, ingest arbitrary JSON documents ranging from 100 bytes to 100 GB, how would TigerStyle fare?

In this instance latency must’ve been 10 years, per my memory this paper came out in 1994

I think it’s hard to truly appreciate any sport you haven’t played yourself. I personally cannot get excited about baseball, and it’s probably mostly because of my own lack of playing experience.

I agree with most points, but I believe the main reason behind TigerBeetle’s lack of memory errors is that they follow the power of 10 rules and do not manage memory dynamically beyond initialization. Team culture and aligning with Zig philosophy are far behind in importance.

While I don’t have personal experience with either project, I feel it is safe to say that Bun and TigerBeetle are not comparable projects: TigerBeetle has a strong focus on testing and correctness, and Bun maybe not so much. IIRC, TB did well in the Jepsen test and had one segfault in a client library. Bun has had quite a few memory safety issues, in fact, the stated motivation for the Rust move is to eliminate those going forward. We shall see how that pans out.

Your point is completely invalidated by useless name calling. The people behind cargo are clearly accomplished and serious individuals, and even if you disagree with some of the choices, calling them bozos makes your whole argument unconvincing.

Great write-up. And, thanks mitchellh for Ghostty, I switched to it last year, and have not regretted it.

However, I am a somewhat surprised that the fix is reserved for a feature release in a couple of months. I would have expected this to be included in a bug fix release.

SSH was around, but not nearly as pervasive it is today. I have memories of having to shake my mouse around during the windows client installation to generate entropy. Fun times