How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going

Re:How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going by steveklabnik on Thursday July 16, 2026 @02:57PM (#48938714)

Bun was a startup. Startups can go out of business, and then you are now scrambling to move your code to something else. They could also be bought by someone who has different priorities regarding future development than you, and that's also a risk.

The simplest solution to these problems, if you have the capital, is to buy them.

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Re:How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going by christkv on Thursday July 16, 2026 @04:11PM (#48939602)

I get that but there is always node.js

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Re:How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going by steveklabnik on Thursday July 16, 2026 @04:49PM (#48940034)

They aren't exactly the same thing, moving to node would be possible but bun does more than node, so you need to replace the whole thing.

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Re:How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going by christkv on Thursday July 16, 2026 @05:14PM (#48940345)

Oh for sure. I guess its just as much a Acqui-hire as well as for the tech.

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