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It is highly debatable if a 200k cost engineer that is suitable for the job wouldn’t bring in more value.

Also it is debatable they got any value at all from this. Anyone who wrote unsafe rust and also wrote zig would know that unsafe rust is much much more unsafe in comparison

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It's only 4% unsafe and most of it is single-line pointers that came from C++

> At the time of writing, about 4% of Bun's Rust code sits inside an unsafe block (~13,000 unsafe keywords across ~27,000 lines / ~780,000 lines), and 78% of those blocks are a single line — a pointer that came from C++, or one call into a C library.

I don't know much about Rust but I imagine this is safer than 100% 'unsafe' code in Zig or C++.

That’s a lot of unsafe. I worked in a project with 50k lines of rust. 9 lines were unsafe. Turned out one of those was a hairy bug. Now it’s 8 lines.

4% of 100k is 4k. 4k lines of unsafe rust is more likely to be unmanageable compared to 4k lines of zig or c dependency on a 100k line rust codebase.

Not sure if they have 100k or a million lines of code

I'm honestly surprised, almost disappointed, that Claude couldn't reduce this 4% to way less.

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