Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust
The Bun project is transitioning from being written in Zig to Rust, marking a significant shift in its underlying technology stack. A new Phase-A porting guide has been added to the documentation to support this migration effort. The change aims to leverage Rust's ecosystem and tooling for future development of the Bun runtime.
- ▪Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust.
- ▪A Phase-A porting guide was added to the project's documentation.
- ▪The porting effort is documented in a commit authored by Jarred Sumner.
- ▪Two new files related to the porting process were added in the recent commit.
- ▪The Bun project remains actively developed under the oven-sh organization on GitHub.
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