The best kind of marketing is when you don’t need to say it aloud by yourself. Yet, this is constantly in HN front page. Maybe engineered or not but marketing regardless.

> Thus far most of the buzz and marketing has been entirely negative from people who are against AI.

To me it seems like quite a lot of it is also by people who spent years maintaining a codebase just to have the metaphorical rug be pulled out from under their feet, and feel that a migration like this might be kind of disrespectful (how many of the people that have gotten good at Zig and know the codebase will find the switch over to Rust easy)? Or in some cases, that it's just bad engineering - instead of releasing it alongside the main project and focusing on gradually getting parity over months, it just got merged into the main branch.

On a more practical note, however - if you get acquired by a company that gives you almost unlimited usage of tools that might help you migrate to a language, that 3 years down the line will lead to a better codebase than today, then I guess it also makes sense to take that chance.

And of course, you get a lot of people who are opposed to AI on principle, as you said.

This is my biggest issue with all this.

It's not that they're using AI, it's the massive rug pull on bun users.

They didn't make a huge deal about it though. I distinctly remember Jarred coming on here just last week to say stop making a big deal about it.

And how is the Bun team supposed to work on a million lines of slop rust code?

I dunno, I am commenting on it mainly because I find the intensity of the anger and accusations of bad faith to be pretty out of proportion with what's actually happening, and I kind of value pushing back on such things to try to moderate the tone of the discussion (not as a devil's advocate thing per se, but more I am more likely to comment if I feel like the average vibe is unreasonable).

The HN guidelines specifically ask you not to do what you're doing, and say what to do if you have a genuine concern:

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I'm not sure that HN is that influential that buying up a few accounts would matter. To what end?

> I've seen a lot of what seems to be inorganic defense of this, including one post from an account that hasn't posted in over a year.

It’s just a standard Pavlovian response of a bootlicker, it can also be triggered if you mention “tax the rich” and “regulate AI hyperscalers”.