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by chrisweekly 38 days ago
100%. For many people, Bun is the only reason they've even heard of Zig. I'm not in a position to comment intelligently on comparative language features per se, but when it comes to mindshare and community size, Rust is a clear winner.
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majormajor 38 days ago
fwiw before today I'd heard of Zig and not Bun :D

something JS-adjacent could certainly be more known than an obscure language but are that many people using drop-in node replacements?

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Dylan16807 38 days ago
fwiw I knew about both but I had no idea Bun was written in Zig.
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chrisweekly 37 days ago
alt runtimes are still pretty niche, but deno and bun do have some degree of adoption. For Bun, the runtime is actually sometimes perceived as unwanted baggage, (eg a consulting client of mine wanted to pursue bun for its build tooling but had no interest in changing the runtime). IMHO, node (with Vite and PNPM) is the right call for the vast majority.
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