Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16

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Post by ErenayDev » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 5:40 AM UTC

Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16
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Re: Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16

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Post by holysantamaria » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 7:24 AM UTC

What makes Bun Bun is all the things that got removed from this project. Node is already powerful enough and well maintained. Why would anyone use this?

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Post by Copenjin » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 7:26 AM UTC

Heroic effort, sifting through that code I mean, but frankly I would have started a new one from scratch, the only thing of value is the name/popularity of the original project.

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Post by dgellow » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 7:31 AM UTC

holysantamaria wrote: post #2

What makes Bun Bun is all the things that got removed from this project. Node is already powerful enough and well maintained. Why would anyone use this?

> The main design decision is to treat this as a runtime, not a general-purpose Bun replacement. A minimal launcher loads a pre-built entrypoint; features that require package installation, bundling, TypeScript transformation, or bun test are intentionally outside the scope.

The author is saying explicitly they don’t want to make a Bun replacement

Re: Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16

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Post by andai » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 7:46 AM UTC

holysantamaria wrote: post #2

What makes Bun Bun is all the things that got removed from this project. Node is already powerful enough and well maintained. Why would anyone use this?

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Post by pjmlp » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 7:46 AM UTC

As usual, most forks created out of community rupture eventually die.

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Post by andai » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 7:50 AM UTC

There seems to be some confusion here (including in the linked discussion?) about what this is. This is not continuing the development on the original Bun (Zig) codebase.

It is extracting a subset of that codebase for deployment purposes. The full version of Bun (presumably in Rust?) will continue to be used for actual development.

So it is not a replacement for Bun, but a supplement to it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49018157

Re: Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16

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Post by muppetman » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 8:40 AM UTC

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Post by kshri24 » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 8:45 AM UTC

muppetman wrote: post #8

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> The desperation to remain relevant now that Bun’s gone

Huh? Zig was never dependent on Bun for being relevant. Tigerbeetle, for example, is written in Zig.

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Post by pdpi » Thu, Jul 23, 2026, 8:47 AM UTC

muppetman wrote: post #8

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TigerBeetle is the other canonical example.