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Zig Creator Slams Bun's Rust Rewrite as 'Unreviewed Slop'

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The creator of the Zig programming language has criticized the Bun JavaScript runtime's recent rewrite in Rust, calling it "unreviewed slop." He suggested that the developer, Sumner, may have prioritized business objectives over technical quality, a situation potentially exacerbated by Anthropic's acquisition of Bun. AI

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Zig Creator Slams Bun's Rust Rewrite as 'Unreviewed Slop'

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    🫠 Zig creator calls Bun’s Claude Rust rewrite ‘unreviewed slop’ ｢ Sumner “was already writing slop well before he had access to LLMs,” Kelley quipped. He specul

    🫠 Zig creator calls Bun’s Claude Rust rewrite ‘unreviewed slop’ ｢ Sumner “was already writing slop well before he had access to LLMs,” Kelley quipped. He speculated that Sumner may have been under pressure to meet business objectives rather than technical ones, a pressure that in…

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