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Bun, the JavaScript runtime and package manager, has merged a rewrite of its core from Zig to Rust, potentially improving performance and maintainability.
A developer named Jarred successfully rewrote parts of the Bun runtime in Rust, achieving a 99.8% pass rate on the existing test suite, highlighting a discussion on engineering ambition.
Sumner successfully ported 960,000 lines of Bun runtime code from Zig to Rust using Anthropic's Claude AI, demonstrating the significant efficiency potential of AI in code rewriting.