> But I'm beginning to wonder whether that will even matter in a few months.

At that point, even Bun itself doesn't matter. All intermediate tools don't matter if LLMs can reliably write something large.

The problem is that LLM is not quite there yet. The rewrite was only possible because they mostly stick to 1-to-1 translation resulting in non-idiomatic Rust code. So, what from there? I don't think they can really build up a sane codebase from that state. They only shot themselves with a bigger gun.

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brabel a day ago | parent | next [-]

> The rewrite was only possible because they mostly stick to 1-to-1 translation resulting in non-idiomatic Rust code.

That’s patently false, just read Jarred’s own blog post describing how that was the first stage only, they went through many more to get the amount of non idiomatic, unsafe Rust code to an acceptable level.

	▲	klibertp a day ago \| parent [-]
		Somebody checked[1], and they discovered that the "stages" past the first had minimal impact on the unsafe blocks count. That's just one metric, but it makes me doubt your claim that there was/is a lot of work put into making the translated code idiomatic Rust. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967630

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jqbd a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Isn't it just: "while true {refactorIdiomatically(); fixErrors()}"

	▲	folkrav a day ago \| parent [-]
		/goal fix all bugs