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Comment by embedding-shape

2 days ago

> This entire article is publicly and personally attacking him for choosing a different product

The article seems to be happy about the switch to Rust, that point is re-iterated multiple times in the article, and seemingly they were both awaiting Bun moving away from Zig and wishing for it.

The post has a lot of incel "well you're ugly and noone wants you anyway" energy

  • I think the article kind of gives you the energy you enter the reading with.

    My take away was closer to "This is what we tried, this is the sentiment they gave back, then this is what happened, here's what I think of Jarred's way of working, glad they now use Rust, good riddance", but then I also apply this slightly unholy strategy of applying charitable reading when reading personal blog posts, and I worship neither of these people, so might be why we got slightly different takeaways.

    • >> I think the article kind of gives you the energy you enter the reading with.

      No, not really. I know nothing about either of the people involved, and after reading the article I came away with an extremely negative opinion of the author. They are using their position as the leader of a language to attack and denigrate someone who used that language for years, donated to it, and eventually decided to move on.

I feel the same way as you do. Honestly, even though it was well-packaged, I did find it a bit rude. But since I don't know their personal relationship, it's not really my place to interfere.

  • The people who steal with AI and give no credit to the actual creative forces (that they are stamping out) are the fucking rude ones.

    I just return to them the kindness they show me when they say, "You made this?? I made this!!"

    • I understand your anger too. AI did steal open source knowledge, and I agree with that part.

      But separately from that, I think it's a bit unfair to talk about the people associated with it in such a dismissive way.

      In reality, humans aren't purely rational beings, and I can understand why the Zig philosophy and the Bun manager who joined the AI side might not have looked good from that perspective. But I think that's a separate issue from the emotions involved.

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