[HN Gopher] Bootstrapping Bun
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Bootstrapping Bun
Author : zerf
Score : 41 points
Date : 2026-01-19 16:55 UTC (3 days ago)
(HTM) web link (walters.app)
(TXT) w3m dump (walters.app)
| shmolyneaux wrote:
| This was a fun read, but it's a shame it hasn't gotten more
| attention. I wouldn't have guessed that Bun was using a custom
| fork of Zig. Since the feature has been closed, I strongly
| suspect that they'll eventually need to need to go back to
| upstream and revert their usage of private members. Using Python
| style `_members` seems like it should be good enough. If you're
| already manually managing memory it seems like respecting those
| privacy hints should be reasonable enough.
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