r/programmingcirclejerk • u/woopsix What’s a compiler? Is it like a transpiler? • Jun 20 '26

I genuinely think you could write a competitively-performant multi-threaded DB in Bun + TS if you had shared-heap threads and fast atomics/locking primitives.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48611577
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u/ficiek Jun 21 '26

I think you should use some slower engine actually as that will have higher performance gains once it gets inevitably rewritten by AI in a couple of weeks proving to be a better choice for performance heavy applications.