Comment by embedding-shape
1 day ago
> this is such a disrespectful move towards the huge amount of contributors who invested time and effort to learn the project and make it better.
What? How?
You contribute to projects run by others with the understanding that others run the project, is this not the default assumption others have too when contributing to FOSS?
Is it disrespectful if my proposed feature was merged, but then later was removed because the maintainer just didn't want the feature anymore? In my mind, pretty clear it wouldn't, I'm only a contributor after all, not the maintainer or the person running the project.
> Is it disrespectful if my proposed feature was merged, but then later was removed because the maintainer just didn't want the feature anymore?
No, the big difference is that the described scenario does not require getting familiar with a new 1M LoC codebase written in a different language to be able to continue contributing to the project.
For who? What you say is true for everyone who doesn't know Rust (before Zig), and not true for everyone else, same as it always is been, for every single FOSS project out there.
So it's disrespectful because before you could contribute, but because of the direction of the project, you no longer can?
Does that also means it'd be disrespectful to make projects more complicated and complex, because maybe someone who contributed initially don't know these new concepts, so introducing those would require this individual to learn about those things?
All of this still sounds like entitlement to me. Open source literally isn't about you, let people run their projects as they so wish, them making choices they think are better isn't disrespectful to anyone else, you're not forced to having to contribute to any FOSS projects.
> For who? What you say is true for everyone who doesn't know Rust (before Zig), and not true for everyone else, same as it always is been, for every single FOSS project out there.
Even if you are fluent in rust, it is going to require significant efforts to contribute to a new 1M LoC codebase.
> Open source literally isn't about you, let people run their projects as they so wish, them making choices they think are better
This is so far from the reality. The power of open source is coming from the contributors. Contributors are the most valuable assets of an open source project - without them most of the free tools you use would be significantly worse - including bun. The reason my open source projects got somewhat successful is the community that formed around the projects. And, it is hard to create a community when you give contributors no chance to participate in the projects direction, especially in such a critical decision that has enormous consequences.
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> Open source literally isn't about you, let people run their projects as they so wish, them making choices they think are better isn't disrespectful to anyone else, you're not forced to having to contribute to any FOSS projects.
Tell me you've never worked on any meaningful OSS project.
Good luck to Bun, if I was in any of its contributors list, and not on Anthropic's payroll, I'd say goodbye and never touch the project with a ten foot pole. And I say this as an honest feedback, save your "don't let the door hit you on the way out".