Bun's migration to Rust was nothing more than a marketing stunt to sell more Claude subs under the impression it can perform this kind of work at scale, assuming that most who were convinced by it wouldn't look under the hood at what really took place.

It has its merits as a proof of concept that could eventually be cleaned up and released properly later, but I can't see it any other way.

Too many see it as this miraculous one-shot and are using it as a blueprint to justify more layoffs and buzzword salad in their boisterous LinkedIn announcements about how they're "completely overhauling their strategy" in engineering. Hogwash.

Not sure I understand. Bun's changes are merged on the dev branch and available for use, no?

EDIT: Oh, look, blog post on the front page now.

https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust

> Bun v1.3.14 was the last version of Bun written in Zig. Bun v1.4.0 will be the first version of Bun written in Rust. It's available in canary now.

So, yes, it seems it was definitely more than a "marketing stunt" and it's broadly available and slated to be the production release soon.