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2026-07-15 Science & Technology
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Try CodeRabbit Review free and turn your next big PR into a guided walkthrough - https://coderabbit.link/fireship Bun just refactored their entire codebase from Zig to Rust in just 11 days. But not everybody is celebrating... #coding #programming #ai Want more Fireship? 🗞️ Newsletter: https://bytes.dev 🧠 Courses: https://fireship.dev

Top Comments (10)

@chepulis 2026-07-15

"writing slop well before LLMs" is a bar, holy shit

3.5k 38 replies
@eze2k 2026-07-15

claude, rewrite python in rust

3.3k 63 replies
@weeb3277 2026-07-15

oh shit, internet drama the original slop

971 1 replies
@AmeliaBestWaifu 2026-07-15

Thanks, now I know what to think.

2.5k 15 replies
@h0axify 2026-07-15

"Claude, rewrite Windows in Rust; make no mistake"

470 17 replies
@Ownedyou 2026-07-15

Bun + Rust = Bust

890 25 replies
@emmanuelmuswalo2302 2026-07-15

🤣 slop before LLMs existed is crazy

938 11 replies
@biomorphic 2026-07-15

Spend one billion to buy an open source product that costs zero, then rewrite it spending 165k in tokens.

380 37 replies
@soixantelly 2026-07-15

that single unwrap() waiting patiently for a unit test to falsely pass inside the rust rewrite: my time have come

178 3 replies
@SamerAlhasweh 2026-07-15

it's basically pr for anthropic

992 47 replies

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