An Independent Audit Says Bun's '$165K, 11-Day' Rust Rewrite Is Six Weeks Past Announcement With Open PRs Nearly Doubled
Tom Lockwood's July 27 post tracks the Bun-to-Rust rewrite that was announced July 8 as an 11-day, $165,000 job at roughly $15,000/day in API calls. Six weeks later there is no release tag — 11 weeks since the last release — and open pull requests from the robobun proxy have gone from 1,277 on July 9 to 2,475 on July 27, which he estimates would need about 86 days of continuous merge-pipeline time to clear. Factoring ongoing Buildkite CI, expanded human involvement, and possibly $10,000/day in continuing credits, he projects the true cost approaching $800,000. This is the second consecutive week the Bun rewrite has drawn scrutiny from outside the project, and it is the first attempt to put numbers on the gap between the announcement and the repository state.
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