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[-] TehPers@beehaw.org 16 points 1 week ago

There are a lot of ways to do a terrible job of this. For example, prompting Claude "Rewrite Bun in Rust. Don't make any mistakes." and then praying it would work is not [sic] what I did.

Adversarial workflows seems like an awesome strategy for burning tokens if your workplace uses a token leaderboard. I'm glad to see that someone discovered a way to game the system!

I'm really hoping that Boa can compete soon. I'd love an embeddable, Rust-based JS engine that isn't just AI generated unsafe everywhere. I don't think they plan to really fit into the same space as node/deno/bun, but we already have node for that, and an easier to use JS runtime from within Rust would be awesome.

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 9 points 1 week ago

Rust-based JS engine that isn’t just AI generated unsafe everywhere

Tbf only 4% of the code was unsafe after the rewrite, which is much better than the 100% of the Zig code being unsafe. Honestly it's not surprising you'd have such a large amount of unsafe when you translate Zig to Rust. But as I understand it, it's since been refactored to much less than 4%.