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Zig creator calls Bun’s Claude Rust rewrite ‘unreviewed slop’ (www.theregister.com)
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*The Rustification of Bun#

Rewriting 500,000 lines of Zig into another language would be a gargantuan undertaking if done by hand. “A rewrite in another language would take a small team of engineers a full year. It would mean freezing bugfixes, security fixes or feature development for that time,” Sumner wrote.

Instead, Sumner went with Claude. He spun up about 50 dynamic Claude Code workflows, reaching a peak of about 1,300 lines of code per minute and generating over a million lines of Rust code. The job took 11 days and cost about $165,000 at API pricing. Claude Fable did most of the heavy lifting.

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[-] talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 77 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I, for one, am glad they are volunteering as guinea pigs in an experiment to see how long a popular project can survive LLM slop.

And if they harm javascript's popularity in the process and projects start to look elsewhere... that's an added benefit ;-)

[-] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

The market can remain irrational longer then you can remain liquid as they say

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I miss "We can remain stupid longer than you can remain solvent." and "Ape together strong."

[-] draco_aeneus@mander.xyz 5 points 2 days ago

Bun is not nearly popular enough to have a measurable impact on the JavaScript community, no matter what happens with it.

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