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I don't believe you actually think it's odd to not want to run unreviewed code in prod. I accept that you might disagree, but I don't believe this is a take you haven't heard a million times before.

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Usually it is about the trust. A lot of code is reviewed, but is the reviewer good enough to spot all the issues? Do you trust the reviewer? Usually the trust comes from the ability to see the code by yourself or for the high trust for the existing reviewer. Code is open, it is there, and Bun is a major project which will attract many eyes, and big issues will be sorted very quickly.

I did not mean that I would use it immediately, right now. But it eventually gets there much sooner than Zig, because "compiler" is one sort of reviewer that mitigates many memory safety issues.

So, my point is, that in very short time, this has much more potential than Zig had, because compiler is very strong reviewer for specific kind of issues which were plaguing the old implementation.

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