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Posted by tomlockwood 13 hours ago

How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?(lockwood.dev)
442 points | 336 commentspage 5
brap 13 hours ago||
If you’ve ever worked at a tech company you already know the answer without reading any further
raincole 13 hours ago|
Yeah, the answer is that it's gonna working fine for most users.
zzf 11 hours ago||
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Xenoamorphous 11 hours ago|
> we’re approaching $800k in money spent on this rewrite.

That’s peanuts, if not the shells of the peanuts, for a project and company of this magnitude

_pdp_ 11 hours ago||
How does that help 99.9% of all other companies though?
Xenoamorphous 11 hours ago||
Some thoughts:

- just because it doesn’t help 99.9% of the companies today it doesn’t mean it won’t help them tomorrow

- 0.01% of the companies employ a much bigger percentage of people

- 99.9% of companies won’t need to do a project of this magnitude

jraph 8 hours ago|||
This rewrite is showcased by Anthropic to sell AI rewrites to other companies.

If it turns out the rewrite cost stupid amounts of money and leads to a bad outcome, it's just a misleading ad.

We developers now need to explain that to illuminated management and colleagues.

nevertoolate 10 hours ago|||
So you think if a company can't spend 1 million USD on a rewrite which has almost zero impact on performance, possibly net negative on maintainability it also can't have 500k LOC codebase either? Oh come on...
tomlockwood 11 hours ago||
Ohhhhh for a world where that's peanuts for an open source project.