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How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust Going? (lockwood.dev)
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[–] 107 points 3 months ago (13 children)

My guess:

All testcases are passing, all verifications say everthing is ported correctly, only problem is that nothing works.

They will need to spend a year manually debugging before they can release something in alpha quality .

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  • [–] 61 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    From reading the blog post, I'm guessing you're right. They now have to understand what the AI did and clean up after it. But they will do so with more AI. It's doubtful there will anybody who actually understands the codebase.

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  • [–] 48 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Sounds like a terrifying place to work.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    It's highly likely they have huge salaries to go along with it. There are worse ways to spend your time.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Maybe, but you'd be surprised how many shitty, low paying shops exist out there that pull stupid shit.

    A few of my graduates went to one locally where they did not have a single version control system setup. Granted this was about 10 years ago but 2016 was still in an era where they should have known better.

    You had a fuckton of newbies and non-coders who schmoozed into positions basically live editing prod.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    I have an “innovation award” trophy from my last job sitting on my office bookshelf.

    The alleged innovation was rolling out git to track the DB schema backing mission-critical operations, in the year 2021.

    (It was a government job btw.)

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I recently had to use TortoiseSVN. It doesn't handle merge conflicts well

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  • [–] 36 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    It can't be quite that bad; they've been shipping the rust version of Bun with Claude Code since v2.1.181 (released June 18th), and I haven't seen an outcry over all related functionality breaking

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Why is the article talking so much about the lack of new release tag if the rewrite is already being shipped?

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