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Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good (tipiirai.com)
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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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[–] 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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