Re:Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16
by ForHackernews on Thursday July 23, 2026 @05:29AM
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> Cruller is not intended to replace Bun for development. It is a minimal, specialized runtime for executing production code.
> In any case, I do not want to throw away such a large codebase that has taken several years to build. It makes more sense to turn it into a convenient embeddable library that can be used throughout the Zig ecosystem.
This seems pretty sensible to me. It's nice if the Zig ecosystem has an embeddable JS runtime.
> In any case, I do not want to throw away such a large codebase that has taken several years to build. It makes more sense to turn it into a convenient embeddable library that can be used throughout the Zig ecosystem.
This seems pretty sensible to me. It's nice if the Zig ecosystem has an embeddable JS runtime.