Comment by evil-olive
2 days ago
right at the very top:
> Bun · Rust codebase audit · May 21, 2026 · AI generated
nice of them to be up-front about it, I guess.
the port is AI slop, littered with 13k unsafe blocks.
and this blog post is more AI slop, claiming to present a "plan" for how to reduce that number.
why should anyone trust anything they output? all they're trying to do is cover up their slop with more slop.
if you're cleaning your house, and the dirt can't all fit under one rug, the obvious solution is to buy another rug.
Let's save the accusations of sweeping things under the rug for if and when they actually release this rewrite in a sloppy, buggy state.
I trust them because of their reputation. I have been a bun user before v1.0.0 and I experienced some shortcomings, bugs, memory leaks and things of that nature. But all of them were eventually patched, and it has become my go to runtime for at least 2 years now.
I trust their judgement to do the right thing.
I don’t understand the overreaction since this is a parallel development.
If it turns out to be better than make it default. Bugs get fixed it’s not like their zig version didn’t have issues before.
> I trust them because of their reputation.
Anthropic has a serious savior complex (when it is actually about total control) and believe that you should not run your own models locally and they do not care about you and I.
This Bun Zig to Rust rewrite is great content for them and for their IPO prospectus, but it isn't performative in the sense that it is fake. (It is real with terrible code.)
What this really means is that it gives the green light to managers and everyone else to use Claude to do massive rewrites; even when it produces hundreds of thousands of lines of slop.
Unless comprehension debt is what you want.
You do not have the same amount of token-spend as the Bun team does.
> I trust their judgement to do the right thing.
They will do the "right thing" for their investors (and soon Wall Street).
Comprehension debt will be the next manager's problem after I get promoted because of the massive vibecoded rewrite.
Dunno, AI was quick to prove it could be done. I’ve found while it’s initial attempts might be slop, with good direction it can really tidy things up