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Re:How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going? by simonw on Monday July 27, 2026 @10:50AM (#49070517)
No, it's a raw count.

I get that there's a baseline of unsafe that's necessary, but I was under the impression that some of those unsafes were in places where they could be replaced by more idiomatic Rust at a later date.

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Re:How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going? by tomlockwood on Monday July 27, 2026 @10:56AM (#49070614)
I don't think that's true. I think a fair chunk of them are places where Bun is handed a pointer by WebKit or something similar. I believe they write about this a little.
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Re:How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going? by insanitybit on Monday July 27, 2026 @12:06PM (#49071592)
I think there's a reasonable expectation that unsafe could still be reduced by having shared, safer abstractions - that would lead to fewer `unsafe` results because the `unsafe` would be contained. I'm surprised that this isn't a higher priority target for them.
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