Comment by aeturnum
1 hour ago
To me this seems like an odd preoccupation for an article that is very little about the Bun rewrite as a running program and very much about the process of the re-write and how it came to be in commits to the repository.
You could argue that the release tag isn't important - but at the top of this comment thread a member of the team confirms they delayed the release to finish some extra testing. So the ambiguity around if the project is complete and pointing to the lack of a release mirrors internal sentiment as well.
Author here: Exactly.
I had a funny thought that Bun might add a release tag while I was still writing the article. In that case I'd still publish it, because the point is we still don't know the cost it took to get to a viable, wide, release. The $165k isn't the full story.