How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
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How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
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Re: How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
#2If you’ve ever worked at a tech company you already know the answer without reading any further
Re: How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
#3Author here: An apology on the graphs, they just count rust files touched in commits, not total commits. So if there were two commits and one touched 3 .rs files and another touched 2, it'd be counted as 5 for the purposes of the graphs. I may fix this later but, yeah.
Re: How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
#4If you’ve ever worked at a tech company you already know the answer without reading any further
Yeah, the answer is that it's gonna working fine for most users.
Re: How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
#5I did suspect that the triumphalist pronouncements, and even the seemingly honest and forthright deep dive, were a little premature.
This is a key problem with LLM exuberance: it's very tempting to trade on decades of experience in software using LLMs, because one is tired of typing and manual figuring-out, it seems to work if you're competent, and the payoff is essentially immediate. The real bill comes in the mail much later.
Re: How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
#6Many repeat the point of “$165k is cheaper than team of multiple engineers working on the rewrite for a year”, which I think is flawed — the team of engineers would have produced idiomatic rust, and it would take probably 100k+ of tokens more to make the bun in rust idiomatic rust.
Re: How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
#7This post doesn’t make sense. It was rewritten in Rust. The rewrite itself is complete (no more Zig).
Various people have claimed that Bun in Zig had a lot of tech debt. If they’re to be believed, it seems natural to assume the rewrite does, too. Perhaps all this activity is paying down some of that debt.
Re: How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
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Re: How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
#9Author here: An apology on the graphs, they just count rust files touched in commits, not total commits. So if there were two commits and one touched 3 .rs files and another touched 2, it'd be counted as 5 for the purposes of the graphs. I may fix this later but, yeah.
what kind of difference from the actual numbers does it result in?
Re: How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
#10This post doesn’t make sense. It was rewritten in Rust. The rewrite itself is complete (no more Zig). Various people have claimed that Bun in Zig had a lot of tech debt. If they’re to be believed, it seems natural to assume the rewrite does, too. Perhaps all this activity is paying down some of that debt.
> Perhaps all this activity is paying down some of that debt.
Perhaps. But were that the case, one would think they'd be quite eager to say so.