alt Hacker News> 99.8% of bun’s pre-existing test suite passes on Linux x64 glibc in the rust rewrite
OK, they've got a working prototype, congrats! Now it needs to be put into shape so that all the unsafe blocks are eliminated (maybe with a few tiny exceptions), and the code is turned into maintainable, readable, reasonably idiomatic Rust.
I wonder how long is it going to take.
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> Now it needs to be put into shape so that all the unsafe blocks are eliminated
All the unsafe seems to be FFI?
https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aoven-sh%2Fbun+unsafe+lang...
> and the code is turned into maintainable, readable, reasonably idiomatic Rust. I wonder how long is it going to take.
This isn't a c2rust rewrite?
This is the kind of program that would need to have a lot of unsafe even if it had been written in Rust from the very beginning. For comparison, there are about 2600 unsafe blocks in Deno, not counting dependencies.
About 2 months, or 60 days, if we go by the old 90/10 rule.
Not sure that rule is even applicable anymore, but I don't have a better heuristic to make guesses by either.