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Bun is now over 1M lines of Rust code.
This is approaching the size of the Rust compiler itself; except that BunJs is mostly a JavaScript interpreter wrapper + a reimplementation of the NodeJS library (Rust STD wrapper).
I think BunJS is becoming the canary for software complexity management in the LLM era.
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The Bun codebase had a similar number of lines of code before the rewrite.
There's nothing unusual about a rewrite coming in with a similar LOC number.
> I think BunJS is becoming the canary for software complexity management in the LLM era.
Yeah, Cursor did the same thing, bragging about how many lines of code they managed to produce for a semi-working browser, completely missing the idea where less code is better, not the other way around.
I'm not sure if it's just the leading '+' or if there are other factors for phone number detection on iOS, but on mobile the line count changes are underlined and I can tap it to start a call, which, if it is because of the diff size, is something I find pretty amusing.