Post #4205165

2026-07-27 13:47 UTC

@cwebber@social.coop I hope everyone will forgive me for stating this, since it's probably obvious to most: Before the Claude rewrite, bun.js was almost 1300 Zig files and 700k lines of Zig code. A fast rewrite in any other language for a million dollars is a colossal technological achievement. But only if it works, and only if that's the actual cost. In this case, it looks like neither.

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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie 2026-07-27 13:57

@firebreathingduck@social.vivaldi.net @cwebber@social.coop Would spending the money on a translation program to translate language A to B be better? Though I've never seen one of those that worked for non-trivial real world packages. The MS tool for VB6 to VB.net was worthless. It was better to re-design & rewrite in C# to move from VB6 to .net. Redesigning is important when moving & I can't believe LLMs can do it. How maintainable or easy for humans to change/add features to LLM gened code? Can the LLM add features? PR!

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