Your post went into way more depth than I was expecting when I first opened up it up. You clearly spent a lot of time on it and I appreciated reading the tale so thank you. Given all the drama around AK / Bun, it just would have been so funny to see someone not involved in the project solve one of the main motivations for the move to rust.

I believe there is a fork of bun from 1.3 that a different community is maintaining. I wonder if they’ve been able to get the compile times down by modularizing the build?