It's more like a transpile, far from idiomatic rust.
My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
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Re: My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
#12> I actually don't have any personal criticisms of Jarred The whole post felt like a personal criticism of Jarred.
I'm about to comment exactly this.
Re: My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
#13It feels like the first half of blog post is less of "thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite" and more "I don't like Jarred, he's a bad programmer and manager". Maybe I'm wrong, but it strongly feels this way. I'm not saying that Andrew is right or wrong, it's just that you could throw out most of the first half of the post and not lose anything actually on topic. > But having graduated from the Thiel Fellowship school of…
Andrew is right. I’m sure his emotions come through here, but his take on these things lines up with everything I’ve seen.
Re: My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
#14To me, this whole effort of rewriting Bun from Zig to Rust looks like a big marketing move. The question is: if Anthropic AI is really that powerful, why not just fix the bugs and give it the more ambitious task of redesigning the existing Bun Zig codebase in a way that eliminates not only the current bugs but also prevents similar ones from happening in the future?
Re: My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
#15> I actually don't have any personal criticisms of Jarred The whole post felt like a personal criticism of Jarred.
I'd consider the opinions professional criticisms of Jarred. While focused on him individually I don't think they are very personal
i think they are extremely personal and actually very distinct from professional criticisms.
Re: My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
#16I for one appreciate a public figure with a wildly opposed mindset to the Silicon Valley/VC-Funded/Ultrascaling/whatever crowd.
The pushback is warranted and on point, especially the technical points. It has taken a suspicious amount of time to produce the fabled blog post which I don't think states almost any new information beyond what Jarred has already shared on twitter. The one (and very interesting) exception is the theoretical price of the rewrite via the API pricing.
Re: My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
#17> I actually don't have any personal criticisms of Jarred The whole post felt like a personal criticism of Jarred.
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Re: My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
#18To me, this whole effort of rewriting Bun from Zig to Rust looks like a big marketing move. The question is: if Anthropic AI is really that powerful, why not just fix the bugs and give it the more ambitious task of redesigning the existing Bun Zig codebase in a way that eliminates not only the current bugs but also prevents similar ones from happening in the future?
zig doesn't accept ai written code
Re: My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
#19> he could have easily achieved a solid living via crowdfunding, even for San Francisco standards. That sounds completely surreal. Is Bun really used that much?
That is a 100% on point analysis, there was a lot of hype around Bun since the beginning when it was an invite only project. Arguably that same interest is what got Jarred VC funding in the first place.
Note that usage and public interest are not the same quantity, people also care about the potential of a project.
Re: My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
#20To me, this whole effort of rewriting Bun from Zig to Rust looks like a big marketing move. The question is: if Anthropic AI is really that powerful, why not just fix the bugs and give it the more ambitious task of redesigning the existing Bun Zig codebase in a way that eliminates not only the current bugs but also prevents similar ones from happening in the future?
But Rust is exactly the tooling that gives humans and LLMs a lot of those checks for free, and things like RAII.