I made a build profiler to understand Bun’s compile times - Lalit Maganti

kept by solarsage sep 12

The author built buildprof to trace Bun's compile times, revealing that Full LTO linking and a monolithic Zig module caused slow builds, which improved with ThinLTO and crate splitting.

bun/docs/PORTING.md at claude/phase-a-port · oven-sh/bun
This document defines the rules and idiom map for porting the Bun JavaScript runtime from Zig to Rust in a two-phase process: Phase A produces a draft Rust file, and Phase B makes it compile.
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Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good
The author argues that Bun’s Rust rewrite, driven heavily by AI, has caused delays, rising open PRs, and community frustration over broken promises and code quality.
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Introducing the Safari MCP server for web developers
Apple released a Model Context Protocol server for Safari that lets AI agents inspect DOM, network requests, screenshots, and console output to debug websites autonomously.
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Native all the way, until you need text
Web views like Electron outperform native text frameworks (TextKit 2) for complex Markdown rendering, despite size overhead, due to resource investment and cross-platform convenience.
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Bun 1.4 | Bun Blog
Bun 1.4 rewrites the runtime in Rust, adds built-in headless browser automation, image and markdown APIs, boosts Node.js compatibility, and reduces CPU and memory usage.
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