alt.hn

1/19/2026 at 4:55:32 PM

Bootstrapping Bun

https://walters.app/blog/bootstrapping-bun

by zerf

1/22/2026 at 10:28:35 PM

This was a fun read, but it's a shame it hasn't gotten more attention. I wouldn't have guessed that Bun was using a custom fork of Zig. Since the feature has been closed, I strongly suspect that they'll eventually need to need to go back to upstream and revert their usage of private members. Using Python style `_members` seems like it should be good enough. If you're already manually managing memory it seems like respecting those privacy hints should be reasonable enough.

by shmolyneaux

1/19/2026 at 6:28:39 PM

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by the__alchemist

1/19/2026 at 6:14:28 PM

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by lasgawe