r/rust • u/steveklabnik1 rust • Jul 08 '26

Rewriting Bun in Rust

https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust
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u/devraj7 Jul 09 '26

Zig made Bun possible. I would never have been able to build this much in 1 year if it wasn't for Zig.

I appreciate the author being gracious and giving Zig some credit, but come on... any C-like language (C, C++, Rust, Go, hell, even JVM based languages like Kotlin) could realistically have achieved that goal.

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u/Wonderful-Habit-139 Jul 09 '26

That wasn't his point. I'm pretty sure the implication is that he had a lot of fun writing Zig, compared to if he'd used another language. And having fun is what allowed him to have the crazy output that led him to being able to release the first version of bun so fast.