Bun Is Safe Now

Bun Is Safe Now
bun-memes, rust-memes, javascript-memes, memory-safety-memes, ai-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

So the JavaScript runtime that promised to dethrone Node.js is getting a complete rewrite in Rust because, surprise, writing a high-performance runtime in Zig wasn't quite cutting it for memory safety. The devs are celebrating "memory safety" like they just discovered fire, while completely ignoring that they're literally wheeling in a Trojan horse full of Rust evangelists ready to "rewrite it in Rust" everything they touch.

Claude (the AI) is apparently doing the heavy lifting here, which means we've reached peak 2024: using AI to rewrite your JavaScript runtime in Rust because manual memory management is hard. Give it six months and someone will propose rewriting the Rust parts in Zig for "performance reasons" and the cycle continues.

Meanwhile, Node.js is just sitting there, battle-tested and stable, watching this whole circus unfold.

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