It's a matter of whether this project will provide bug fixes, will continue to exist next month and whether the company will end up scrambling to replace it. No CTO cares about (very) questionable "improvements". They care about if it works and will continue to work.
Sorry, as someone who has been involved in many of these decisions, I don't think you understand how any of this actually works in the real world.
The project is not cool. This is not a new idea, and there is nothing special.
Students won't use it as an example of porting code. I am not aware "porting code" is part of standard software engineering or computer science curriculum. That's not the kind of thing being taught in schools.
Companies won't switch to it unless their CTOs are either insane or incompetent.
If you can do a Rust rewrite with AI, I can create one as well. What makes yours better than mine? Your decade long expertise in database or Rust language? Your reputation? Your proven track record to manage large, complex projects? Your time committed to the project? I don't see any of that.
I don't know why anyone would choose this over the actively (community) maintained proper Postgres project.
I'd love to be proven wrong, but chances are that nobody will use this in production, people will completely forget about the project in 6 months, and the project will be archived not long after that.
Because chances are that it's never going to be production ready, never trustworthy enough to be used by anything serious, and the project will eventually be archived and become at best a (extremely inefficient) learning experience for the author, or at worst a total waste of tokens. I could be completely wrong about this specific project, but most of these projects are like that, and statistics don't lie.
I don't think Bun actually matters much, even for web development. For sure there is a lot of enthusiasm, but all the production systems I know continue to use Node.js and are not moving to Bun any time soon. In the "real world" not that many people care about it.
If you bothered to actually learn just a little bit about the Zig project, you'll know that they are doing ok. They never cared about introducing new features at a fast speed, having lots of contributors, or getting corporate sponsorship, if that's not already obvious from the article. In fact, they intentionally keep a distance from all of that to make the project more sustainable and less prone to the whims of corporations.
You talk as if github is a daunting service only meant for enterprise customers.
When in reality it's easy to sign up and used by almost every kind of project you can think of, including someone's 100 line random bash script with a single sentence README, a tiny embedded device hobby project all the way to a vibe coded project, from people who know nothing about software engineering. Issues are PRs are regularly used for all those projects. You almost need to go extra mile to not put your stuff on github.
I don't think there is any reasonable excuse/explanation other than "inertia".
Exactly why I stopped installing LineageOS on my phone.
While part of it was that I was no longer interested in tinkering with ROM and playing cat-and-mouse game with SafetyNet/root detection/whatever, the other part is that I cannot trust these ROMs, some of which come (or came) with their own bloatware. Those that have official builds are of course better, but the overall experience and security situation is still much worse than OEM ROM, despite all the junk there.
P.S. another issue is that I became sick of is devs using xda forum as the only communication channel, including bug reports, updates etc. GitHub has existed for over a decade, and the issue tracker/release system is usable, yet they choose the worst way to do software engineering.
The keywords in the headline are "Nobel laureate". They are superstars in academia and are getting money, resources and convenience that a tenured US professor cannot dream of. These are extremely rare compared to the number of Chinese professors in US universities.
I mean, many channels like CNBC already looked like that before ChatGPT was invented, stretching a 3min "explainer" video with unnecessary background story and "expert interviews" that serve no purpose, so much that I just go through comments in hope that someone has summarized it for me.
Unfortunately some switch 2 games are only available as digital download codes (e.g. Split Fiction) even though Xbox and PS5 physical versions are real discs. For now.
Sorry, as someone who has been involved in many of these decisions, I don't think you understand how any of this actually works in the real world.