[sod]

Those packages exist already though. Pretty sure the bun maintainers (or Ciro Spaciari in this case) asked the question "how fast could it be if written in zig?".

[izietto]

Isn't it possible to write it in Zig as a separate extension? Every mature language I'm aware of supports this AFAICT

[culi]

Tree shaking means it won't bother you if you don't use it