I'm personally thankful to Jarred & Bun for supporting Zig Software Foundation financially before they got acquired by Anthropic, but the reality of interacting with individuals in the Zig community is that the people who actually show up to Zig events and who do have compelling open source projects are almost never people who were interested in Zig because of Bun.

Bun did give us a bunch of visibility, but most of it was superficial interest.

Understandably, Bun is a JS runtime and so the people who discovered Zig that way were likely interested in doing webdev, and Zig is just now polishing the I/O implementation, so it doesn't have yet a particularly compelling web development experience to offer.

Maybe I should write some code in it sometime.