[jeremyjh]

Bun was not ported to Rust for performance reasons and its not clear to me how anyone can think it was. The reason they've given is memory safety.

[vips7L]

It was ported for vibe reasons.

[galaxyLogic]

Plus 1) There's much more reusable open source code written in Rust than in Zig 2) There are more Rust developers than Zig developers.

[LtWorf]

I don't think there being more rust developers should matter if we're talking about a company that solved coding.

[galangalalgol]

It does, mostly because there is more recent rust in the training corpus. Rust that is almost entirely available under permissive licenses