Bun support is now limited and deprecated

Post by tcfhgj » Sat, May 23, 2026, 9:44 AM UTC

bentcorner wrote: post #465

TheCoreh wrote: post #329

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It's not impossible, or even that hard to review the entire rewritten codebase. 10 engineers each reviewing 5,000 LoC a day for 20 days can do it. And that is being highly conservative with the estimate. A good chunk of the the code is probably highly trivial boilerplate one can easily skim over in minutes.

20 days is rookie numbers. I can get a million engineers to each review a single line and finish code reviewing the entire code base in a minute.

Post by tcfhgj » Sat, May 23, 2026, 9:47 AM UTC

nicce wrote: post #525

alloysmila wrote: post #523

Most people who use/used bun have never read bun's code. Then why does it matter who/what wrote the code? And to be honest bun's zig codebase (especially in the early days) was neither "clean" nor "idiomatic" but the tool worked and people used it.

> Then why does it matter who/what wrote the code? You trust for someones expertice.

Post by sinpif » Sat, May 23, 2026, 10:14 AM UTC

thatxliner wrote: post #56

maxloh wrote: post #12

I understand their decision. How could the maintainers understand their codebase if most of it was not directly written by them? It is impossible to review the entire rewritten codebase. There are just too many lines of code, 1 million lines to be exact [1]. [1]: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30412

it's funny how the readme still says "written in Zig"

Post by Rexxar » Sat, May 23, 2026, 10:29 AM UTC

josephcsible wrote: post #430

sroussey wrote: post #61

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I don’t think changing from zig to rust suddenly means that don’t know what a certain file contains or how it works or how it relates to other files. It’s all the same just different syntax. Which, by the way, is why it looks ugly to rust developers. The devs wanted the code to look familiar to them. I do think they should have called this 2.0 though. Would not feel such a rush (1.3.14 has a few regressions, and no o…

> It’s all the same just different syntax. That reminds me of Chris Reigrut's story from https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Holiday_Smorgasbord

Post by port11 » Sat, May 23, 2026, 10:34 AM UTC

tln wrote: post #75

This is about the rust conversion but that has not been released. > Due to foreseeable compatibility and security issues Hmm, Zig bun crashes plenty. I wish yt-dlp linked to detail on why there are foreseeable compatibility issues. Both projects have test suites, in an ideal world they would allow fast rewrites. Maybe they want to limit inflaming the situation, but if they have spotted some specific issues it would b…