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Or the community at large could stop acting deranged over language wars like it’s 2001.

It’s their repo, let them do what they want lol



I didn't get the impression that anyone cares about the source or destination language. I think the concern is centered around the long history of failure with large scale rewrites like this-- See Netscape 5, Perl 5, etc. Joel Spolsky wrote a legendary article about this [0]. I think the NextJS app router might be slowly joining this conversation as well.

It could get even worse if they get Second System Syndrome[1] and try to add features as they rewrite it. Considering Bun's rapid development cycle, this seems likely.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect




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