My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite

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Context: Rewriting Bun in RustHistoryWhen Jarred joined the Zig community about 5 years ago, I described him as someone who had strong "beginner energy". That is, he moved fast and tried a lot of different stuff, jumping head first into problems that he was not yet equipped to solve, leading to mediocre outcomes in terms of engineering, but learning a whole heck of a lot in the process. I see it as quite a healthy attitude, particularly for young people and students. This is the best way to level up and learn new things.As he focused his efforts on Bun he began to attract attention. JavaScript being the most popular programming language in the world, there are a lot of potential eyeballs on a promising new toolchain.This attention could have been harnessed in a few different ways. For example, he could have easily achieved a solid living via crowdfunding, even for San Francisco standards. But having graduated from the Thiel Fellowship school of thought rather than university, he was e…