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Version 1.3.14 of JavaScript toolkit released as last Zig version; a million lines of Rust code merged in gargantuan commit

A pull request with a Rust version of Anthropic’s Bun, a JavaScript toolkit and runtime originally written in Zig, has been merged to the main Bun repository. Thos comes just days after its author, Jared Sumner, said "there's a very high chance all this code gets thrown out."

Sumner posted on X (formerly Twitter) five days ago that "99.8 percent of bun's pre-existing test suite passes on Linux x64f glibc in the rust rewrite," a clue that what was initially described as an experiment was likely to make it to production. Three days later, the Bun team released version 1.3.14, with Sumner stating that if the Rust rewrite was merged, "this would be the last version in Zig."

Creator Jarred Sumner presented Bun in a launch video

Today that merge took place, adding more than one million lines of code.…