Not all of the memory usage is the fault of Bun/JS. Some of it is likely memory leaks (holding on to data it shouldn't). However, some of the blame does go to using JS. In Rust you can tightly pack your data if you want to, but in JS you can't have nested structs for example. Every object referencing another object is two separate chunks of memory, each with a header, and a pointer from one object to the other. GCs also use more memory. The overhead adds up.
Building a CLI program in JS is a bad choice, and nobody should be defending this decision. Especially since Claude Code is very much able to write Rust code, and they've shown it can port code. Just port Claude Code to Rust directly.
The answer is because you still need at least one human to develop and test any tool, integration, feature.
Unless AI overlords lied and we do need humans
For their work they extensively test using humans with deep expertise
But while marketing they say just vibe code bruh
And here they can't even rewrite CC in rust? Why not! Use 1000000 agents!! Write it in platform specific binary! SAAS is dead, that's what he claimed. So what's stopping him from writing the harness in Rust or C than ReactJS?
When someone says all Software engg could be automated within 1yr they don't mean 'oh use our agents and keep human in loop'
They mean 'AI superior than humans fire all humans and all SWEs will be jobless'
I am not going to reply to you going forwards as I can't speak with someone who lives in a different universe
https://youtu.be/02YLwsCKUww?is=UsJrcLRgdSUd38Jt
Here's a transcript: https://gist.github.com/simonw/0050b4ce40439b97598d4ffdb273d...
They did not claim there is no human involved.