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Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds

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Re: Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds

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Post by hiccuphippo »

childintime wrote: post #4
Retr0id wrote: post #3

> I don’t think any human should sacrifice their sanity untangling this mess of 600K lines of slop code. For that reason, I will not be accepting any human-coded contributions until I deem the project to be in a sane enough shape. Very funny to see a "no humans allowed" contribution policy, and the absurd part is that the rationale actually makes sense. I'm interested to see where this goes. Is it possible to "deslop…

As AI will only get better, accepting contributions can also be automated. The tendency is that open source will die as a collective effort, except for some hardcore stakeouts. AI will become the repository owner. The rest of us just doesn't care enough. This puts users in control.. just pay and you get your feature in a version generated just for you.

>AI will become the repository owner

So Open Source transitions to Public Domain.

Re: Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds

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Post by ForHackernews »

fg137 wrote: post #5

Very interesting, but without an ecosystem I doubt this person can keep maintaining it long term. Bun users who don't care about slop will continue to use Bun, those who care will go back to Node.js, and there isn't much left for this project. It is a gigantic task to maintain a JS runtime and add features.

What's the situation with Deno these days? I care about having a fast/secure/modern JS environment and I've been burned by node.js in the past.

I'm not that optimistic for Bun with all the recent churn/slopcoding but the pitch of "use this one good TS tool for everything" is appealing.

Re: Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds

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Post by andyfleming »

arendtio wrote: post #13

Why is there so much buzz around bun? Can't we just go back to node + npm + vitest + vite?

There’s a project Nub that is meant to bring the benefits of bun to node, which you might appreciate. It also may articulate that gap as to why people like using bun.

https://nubjs.com

Re: Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds

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Post by kristoff_it »

To me the most interesting fact about this fork is that it has proven that Bun could have had fast builds all along.

To be fair, there are caveats still in place today: Zig incremental compilation does not yet support aarch64 and only the linux linker supports binary patching, but it's just a matter of time before all major platforms are conquered.

Re: Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds

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Post by kachnuv_ocasek »

andyfleming wrote: post #16
arendtio wrote: post #13

Why is there so much buzz around bun? Can't we just go back to node + npm + vitest + vite?

There’s a project Nub that is meant to bring the benefits of bun to node, which you might appreciate. It also may articulate that gap as to why people like using bun. https://nubjs.com

What are the benefits, though?
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