Anthrophic's Bun team trials port from Zig to Rust
Bun posts Rust porting guide, says rewrite is still half-baked
Zig's no-AI policy is at odds with view that most open source code will be AI-written in future
Bun creator Jarred Sumner has posted a Zig-to-Rust porting guide, igniting speculation that the project may migrate away from Zig, though Sumner said there is no commitment to rewriting, only that he is "curious to see what a working version of this looks like."
Bun, a JavaScript runtime and toolkit, is a prominent user of Zig, a general-purpose systems programming language designed by Andrew Kelley to improve on C, currently at version 0.16. Building with Zig has been a distinctive feature of Bun against its competitors Node.js, which uses C++, and Deno, which uses Rust.
That said, the Bun team has already forked Zig, claiminga four-times improvement in debug compilation times thanks to the use of parallel code generation with LLVM...
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