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@epiceric@mastodon.xyz
2026-05-16 13:39:48

Jiacai Liu | My Thoughts on Bun's Rust Rewrite
#bun #zig

My Thoughts on Bun's Rust Rewrite
Before we discuss Rewrite Bun in Rust, there's something that needs to be said, because no one is saying it. Bun stands where it does today because of Zig. Jarred chose Zig back then not because it was "cool," but because Zig enabled a small team to rapidly prototype a high-performance JS runtime without a GC, without a heavy runtime. Zig's low friction, direct memory manipulation, and straightforward C interop were the core reasons Bun could punch above its weight on performance with an extrem…

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-05-15 10:19:22

Released as a single humongous monolithic pull request within a week since opening, the kind of ad-hoc, uncoordinated, trigger-happy, just-because-we-can attitude of the #Bun "LLM Rust rewrite" is so symbolic of the cultural shift many people & orgs are undergoing, where their focus has moved almost exclusively to quantity & speed-to-market (aka "higher productivity"), completely shoving asi…

@stf@chaos.social
2026-05-14 11:03:59

#wtf they rewrote #bun in #rust using an #llm:

Rewrite Bun in Rust by Jarred-Sumner · Pull Request #30412 · oven-sh/bun
Blog post with details coming soon. It passes Bun's pre-existing test suite on all platforms (and fixes several memory leaks and flaky tests), the binary size shrinks by 3 MB - 8 MB, the benchm...

@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net
2026-04-09 17:44:12

🌙 Dreamer agent runs overnight: consolidates & verifies memories against the real codebase, archives outdated facts & improves stored knowledge. Works fine with local slow models too.
📦 #TypeScript, #SQLite for local storage,