Cue the clueless CEOs of zig shops (I don't know many, but still):
reply"Rust is faster and safer! Port it! If you don't do it, I'll do it myself, because AI can do everything a programmer can, including the stuff you don't want to do. Ship it!"
What serious zig shops exist are generally run by actual engineers. Check out tigerbeetle if you want a good example.
replyWhy would it be? There is projects like Roc that did the opposite, they went from rust to zig, as they (had to) use lots of unsafe rust. And before you ask, no it was not an AI generated rewrite.
replythat is the point. rewrite is fine when
- you take your sweet time doing that
- you still know full well the codebase
replythat will ensure the new codebase can still be well understood and can continue to grow in foreseeable future
or you can just vibe the whole experience if it is a legacy project with all the specs and edge cases known.
since bun rewrite is neither of the case, it will be a crapfest soon enough.