Picking a pre 1.0 language to build your product always seemed like a bad choice to me. Purely on that basis and ignoring the recent drama this seems like a reasonable idea for tech debt pay down to me. Assuming automated conversion can work without making things worse, which is not exactly a given.
> Picking a pre 1.0 language to build your product always seemed like a bad choice to me.
Such as React Native? :D
React Native is only an application framework. Using a tool with an unstable API a level down the stack seems much worse. Foundations of sand is the phrase that springs to mind.
Yes. And don't get me wrong. I have made a living from it for years now. It's a wild ecosystem. Not for the faint hearted.
Partially, the team would have never expected the project to be acquire before Bun touches v1.0.
Or, even if they 100% expected to be acquired before Bun touches 1.0, you could see how they might not care about this type of tech debt.