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by nsagent 19 days ago
Hate to bring the whole Bun rewrite drama into this discussion, but it seems the Bun team thinks it makes sense to trade a potentially faster compile time in Zig to a likely slower compile time in Rust due to the claimed advantages of a memory-safe language with a robust type system.

That approach seems entirely counter to the claims in this post. Obviously, different teams can have different perspectives, but I'm surprised just how different they are (especially for someone on the Haskell board).

I'd love to better understand why the LLM flow works for Bun, but feels untenable for Scarf. Maybe the Scarf team could learn from the Bun team's approach?

1 comments

OP said here that their team was familiar with Python and not with Rust.

It's as simple as that.

I replied that a frontier LLM can both write code in Rust _and_ educate you. And got down voted.