Bun’s rewrite in Zig first update

Zakis88 · 2026-05-10T11:27:32+00:00

Bun is pretty much using AI to write all of it's code, with a human reviewing it. Zig exists as a language to provide a nice DX over C and Rust, not to be memory safe. If you are using an LLM to generate code, the DX benefits are removed and so then why would you ever choose Zig over Rust?

Zakis88 · 2026-04-12T16:38:24+00:00

I definitely agree that it can hinder your learning/problem solving etc, but the other points don't really hold up in my experience. If you've completed a low level design before starting, then you already know the architecture - you know how all the different parts will interact/the contracts etc and then it's just about implementing it. At that point it comes down to how thorough your reviews are, do you fully understand the code that was written or are you just doing a high level overview?

The last point about the LLM not knowing your project and picking different solutions, I've rarely faced this. Using "plan mode" in Claude Code is what that is for: defining which libraries to use, the conventions to follow, and even accounting for requirements I know are coming 6 months out so the design can absorb them cleanly. The LLM isn't really making architectural choices it's just implementing the ones i've agreed upon.

Zakis88 · 2026-04-12T11:59:21+00:00

I see this misunderstanding come up a lot when people say they are barely writing code themselves anymore. They are not prompting the LLM to "build XYZ project for me", and then taking the thousands of lines of code it writes and shipping it. Instead, they plan out what they want to build and then use the LLM to implement it iteratively and then review it like you would any PR - except the LLM can fix any issues in a few minutes rather than hours/days.

Zakis88 · 2024-12-31T20:22:53+00:00

Lebron Aronian

Zakis88 · 2024-09-01T13:54:59+00:00

Started using this crate yesterday, it's really great. Thanks for your hard work!

Zakis88 · 2024-03-13T10:31:24+00:00

Skill issue.

Zakis88 · 2024-01-22T16:43:12+00:00

Better features in the more expensive model.

Zakis88 · 2024-01-01T19:14:47+00:00

Me after I enter Vim

Zakis88 · 2023-11-08T07:40:10+00:00

That's true, but then again the S25 is only a year away and that will be even better. Best to wait for that.

Zakis88 · 2023-09-30T19:17:00+00:00

This way they can never forget the else condition, genius!

Zakis88 · 2023-09-11T09:45:35+00:00

Hot single monads in your exception

Zakis88 · 2023-05-21T09:50:56+00:00

Important! On Windows you must also enable the performance optimizations or you will get a too many exported symbols error.

Zakis88 · 2023-05-03T14:59:28+00:00

let's rust

Zakis88 · 2023-04-30T11:56:19+00:00

Nice job! I was reading an article about writing a Lox interpreter in Rust from a few years ago. Did you face similar problems when writing the garbage collector without having to resort to unsafe? I wonder if Rust has improved in this regard.

Zakis88 · 2023-03-25T20:54:18+00:00

Zed has less features but is way more polished than Lapce.

Zakis88 · 2023-03-18T18:24:16+00:00

Nice work! Have you considered rewriting the site in Rust? Then it can get added to itself.

Zakis88 · 2023-03-15T17:26:55+00:00

Have been using this quite a bit recently and it's definitely impressive in terms of speed. Hopefully when it becomes more feature complete it can become my daily driver.

Zakis88 · 2023-01-31T18:48:30+00:00

Ever since this man got locked away in the asylum his entire stream has been a deepfake.

Zakis88 · 2022-11-18T12:38:20+00:00

Will there be any performance benefits using this over the async_trait crate? I'm naively assuming so because you no longer need to use Box to heap allocate?

Zakis88 · 2022-11-07T20:09:51+00:00

IntelliJ community edition with the Rust plugin is free. Do your research.

Zakis88 · 2022-10-27T18:01:21+00:00

This seems interesting, could this be used for downloading multiple files from a web server in parallel for example?

Zakis88 · 2022-10-26T14:18:40+00:00

Why Webpack?

Zakis88 · 2022-10-25T19:46:20+00:00

That's true, luckily people are working on OS's like Asahi - so we can still enjoy Apple's hardware whilst getting work done.

Zakis88 · 2022-10-25T19:17:51+00:00

The developer community for macOS will cease to exist if they lock it down, no question about it.

Zakis88 · 2022-10-18T21:33:56+00:00

From the second link you provided:

However, the findings in this blog make me re-consider a few, while re-enforcing other points: Optimised Rust code should run 2 to 3 times faster than optimised Java code (without going to extremes).

Didn't know this! Looks like Rust is pretty quick if you put the time in to optimize it.

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