Bun Rewrites 535K Lines of Zig into Rust in Four Months, Eliminates Numerous Memory Leaks

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Bun Rewrites 535K Lines of Zig into Rust in Four Months, Eliminates Numerous Memory Leaks

Summary

Bun rewrote 535K lines of Zig into Rust in four months using an AI-assisted multi-agent system with Claude Fable 5, eliminating memory leaks via Rust's borrow checker. The process used PORTING.md and LIFETIMES.tsv for mapping, adversarial reviewer agents, and 64 parallel Claude instances across 4 shards, achieving 1,300 lines per minute and passing over a million test assertions.

Author

Bruno Couriol