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IshKebabtoday at 9:58 AM1 replyview on HN

My initial reaction was that this is pure insanity but in fairness this is a fairly 1:1 port of existing code, so the developer's mental model of it should still match fairly well.

For instance look at this Zig function: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/ed1a70f81708d7d137de8de0...

Versus this Rust version: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/ed1a70f81708d7d137de8de0...

I did pick that at random but it does look like the best case. I skimmed through a lot of the Rust code and there's a surprisingly small amount of `unsafe`.

Still pretty insane to merge this in such a short time with so little testing, but I can easily think of bigger software engineering mistakes. Hell it's not like Bun even needs to be commercially successful any more.


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jwpapitoday at 10:01 AM

It’s still 400k more lines

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