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Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good (tipiirai.com)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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The last three months have not looked good for Bun. It started as one of the most impressive individual engineering projects I have seen, but has now turned into this weird AI-powered creature with continuous false promises and an increasingly frustrated community.

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[–] 37 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Homie probably went "Claude, rewrite this in rust" and left. Bit off too much. Dont listen to the AI companies, these things cannot be on their own.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    The author described the process in Rewriting Bun in Rust. The tl;dr is it wasn't as simple as prompting "rewrite this in Rust", but the process was done entirely by a series of AI agents.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago*

    I couldn't afford to do it on a project only intended for me to use. It takes "throw money at the problem" to a different level. For the same cost, he could have put up bounties and gotten open source devs excited about the port.

    Edit: meant to respond to a different comment. Whatever lol.

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