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I don't really understand the point of this. Is it Anthropic showing off well their LLMs work? Was it too difficult to find Zig devs so Bun swapped to Rust? Did Jarred read one too many memes about "rewriting in rust" and took it at face value?? I would imagine that there will be bugs migrating all at once, performance will probably be close to the same, and the maintainers will need to context shift from Zig to Rust…
I'm confused. Never heard of Bun until a few days ago here on HN. It's some nodejs wrapper thingy, written in Zig, and someone decided to use LLM to rewrite it in Rust. Is this a big deal? Who is even using this software? Why is this big?
Rust vs Zig "wars" etc. Also at some point Bun was acquired by Anthropic. And some people feared that this will greatly influence Bun's development.
I'm confused. Never heard of Bun until a few days ago here on HN. It's some nodejs wrapper thingy, written in Zig, and someone decided to use LLM to rewrite it in Rust. Is this a big deal? Who is even using this software? Why is this big?
I'm confused. Never heard of Bun until a few days ago here on HN. It's some nodejs wrapper thingy, written in Zig, and someone decided to use LLM to rewrite it in Rust. Is this a big deal? Who is even using this software? Why is this big?
Node.js is a distribution of the V8 JavaScript engine (the thing that executes JavaScript in the Chrome browser), along with a bunch of standard library code written mostly in C++.
Bun is a distribution of the JavaScriptCore engine (the thing that executes JavaScript in the Safari browser), along with a bunch of standard library code written mostly in Zig (and now Rust). Bun's standard library is in many cases compatible with or inspired by the Node.js standard library, but with some changes for convenience and performance.
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No, what we knew then is still what was known then. Today is different, and seemingly they've committed to the rewrite, so now it makes sense that people have strong feelings about it, as it's no longer just an experiment.
Maybe the people who "were overreacting" just happened to have more foresight than you and me? Perhaps they saw where this was heading, and that led to their "overreaction"?
Does anyone know how exactly Bun is used by Anthropic? Is it a part of Claude Code? I'm more than slightly worried about using Bun going forward myself, but I'm not sure to what extent that applies to using Claude as well.
I'm confused. Never heard of Bun until a few days ago here on HN. It's some nodejs wrapper thingy, written in Zig, and someone decided to use LLM to rewrite it in Rust. Is this a big deal? Who is even using this software? Why is this big?
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That's my point - I don't see any hope of removing the 10,000+ unsafe calls, especially not one step at a time. As such, this is a publicity stunt.
You could do, but maybe they never will. I have no idea. But the point is, in 2027, 2028... your new code doesn't have to suffer from these frankly 1970s issues You could also gradually fix the internals — if you wanted to
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