Is Bun Switching Its Core from Zig to Rust? What It Means for Node.js

A tweet about Bun's massive 28,000‑line experiment to translate its Zig codebase to Rust sparked intense community debate, prompting the founder to clarify it’s a curiosity‑driven test, while Node.js contributors weigh the feasibility and implications of a similar Rust rewrite.

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Is Bun Switching Its Core from Zig to Rust? What It Means for Node.js