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Re:Bootstrapping Bun by shmolyneaux on Thursday January 22, 2026 @05:28PM (#46725960)
This was a fun read, but it's a shame it hasn't gotten more attention. I wouldn't have guessed that Bun was using a custom fork of Zig. Since the feature has been closed, I strongly suspect that they'll eventually need to need to go back to upstream and revert their usage of private members. Using Python style `_members` seems like it should be good enough. If you're already manually managing memory it seems like respecting those privacy hints should be reasonable enough.

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