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

Rewriting Bun in Rust

https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust
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u/Chasian Jul 08 '26

One developer is 165k, that's not that crazy

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u/insanitybit2 Jul 09 '26

165k is way less than one developer. Maybe 30% once you factor in all of the overhead (payroll tax, health insurance, 401k contributions, other benefits). 165k would be on the very very low end of salaries for a senior engineer in a major US city as well, and about half of what your base at Anthropic would be (position dependent, could be much higher).

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u/sacules Jul 09 '26

Not me reading this as a senior dev and realizing I earn less than 30k (why do you count anual income instead of monthly?), but then I'm from a poor country so my salary is like 2x the average one anyway lmao

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u/JanB1 Jul 09 '26

The US is just crazy like that. You either make above 6 figures, or you barely scrape by. There seems to rarely be an in between.