@GergelyOrosz: While impressive, for 99% of companies, justifying a one-off $150K+ spend on a single migration is just not realistic. …
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Gergely Orosz comments on the impracticality of a one-off $150K+ migration cost for most companies, referencing the Bun rewrite in Rust.
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While impressive, for 99% of companies, justifying a one-off $150K+ spend on a single migration is just not realistic.
Even tho they will justify 3 devs spending a year working on it… while also doing other work (incl product work, planning, support etc), as they always do.
Theo - t3.gg (@theo): The Bun rewrite in Rust would have cost about $165k in tokens if it was done over API
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