[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)
        
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       | 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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