So I have barely heard about Ghostty, and not at all about Tigerbeetle. Honestly, even Bun is a 2nd/3rd tier JS engine. Regardless, I think that if Bun goes forward with the port, the biggest issue is that for a language to so not live up to expectations that someone was willing to rewrite a ~1M LOC project to an entirely new language is insane. The most common case when there are some deficiencies in a language stalling development is to rewrite/refactor parts of their code base to another language that they feel as though would be better suited, not completely rewrite everything.
Strongly agree. And not only that, but time has _already_ shown the continued degradation of the github experience even with users ostensibly sticking around trying to "make it better".
> My version of your post reads differently:
> "GitHub only gets better if people who give a shit stick around to make it better"
> Walking away would be easy.
Yeah, be careful not to gaslight yourself into trying to "tough it out" with bad vendor relationships. Sometimes you do need to know when things aren't good/healthy and it is time to walk away, as sticking around just ends up being needlessly flagellent.
Especially with corporate owned software or SaaS ecosystems!
Sounds like you made the right choice with Heroku back in the day. I feel like this is Github's Heroku moment.
Alpine and Chimera however both are not reproducible or full source bootstrapped or signed and do not enforce code review. I would honestly steer clear of both for anything but low risk hobby use cases.
IMO they should be best thought of as research projects useful for reference by distros designed for production use.
Bun, Ghostty, and TigerBeetle are 3 popular projects that I have heard about using zig.
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