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Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged

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Re: Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged

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Post by xiphias2 »

I'm actually excited for somebody trying experimenting with automated translation, but I'm afraid this will be lots of backwards compatibility issues.

I started looking at the commits, and it's basically solving the ,,tests not pass'' problem by changing the tests themselves. The real work of making it working on programs that are already deployed will be just starting now.

The only silver lining I see is that the server side JS community for some reason is already used to breakages all the time.

Re: Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged

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Post by franciscop »

tkel wrote: post #4

Turns out "its just an experiment, you all are overreacting" was just a lie to damp criticism. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019226

It seems it was an experiment at that moment, and that it went well? I do hope they release it under 2.x though, cannot imagine how a 1M LoC can break in so many ways, especially if what xiphias says is true:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132902

Re: Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged

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xiphias2 wrote: post #6

I'm actually excited for somebody trying experimenting with automated translation, but I'm afraid this will be lots of backwards compatibility issues. I started looking at the commits, and it's basically solving the ,,tests not pass'' problem by changing the tests themselves. The real work of making it working on programs that are already deployed will be just starting now. The only silver lining I see is that the se…

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