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The branch name is "claude/phase-a-port", there was zero indication this was an experiment until Jarred commented. The more accurate title might have simply bee

The branch name is "claude/phase-a-port", there was zero indication this was an experiment until Jarred commented. The more accurate title might have simply been "there is a branch in the official repo of bun describing a port to rust from zig". No amount of soft titles would have prevented the discussion. People have their opinions about Bun, about Zig, about Rust and it's all going to come out in a discussion board.

zozbot234 5mo ago
> there was zero indication this was an experiment The goal of Phase A is a **draft** `.rs` next to the `.zig` that captures the logic faithfully — it does **not** need to compile. Phase B makes it compile crate-by-crate. I mean, it would be hard to spell it out any clearer than that! Code that fails to compile is just not very useful for real work.
- dspillett 5mo ago
  Yes, but that would require people to read past the title. You can't get a proper knee-jerk first post in if you do that! Completely unfair to expect people to make that sacrifice/effort. [there was some sarcasm there, BTW, if anyone has a faulty detector that didn't pick up on it]
- magicmicah85 5mo ago
  Phase B clearly says compilation is the next goal. The first goal is to get a like for like logic, the second goal is to get it to compile. Can you guess what the third goal will be? Throw out the code?
  - zozbot234 5mo ago
    The branch is named phase-a-port and the document explains what "phase-a" means. It's quite clear.
eigilsagafos 5mo ago
Can’t every branch be considered an experiment? I have a ton of experimental branches that I don’t label «experimental». One of the reasons you use git…
- magicmicah85 5mo ago
  Sure, but then how does it change anything around the discussion? You are still running an experiment to port to Rust, it still gets posted, the Rust-heads and Zig-heads still make their comments.
- xboxnolifes 5mo ago
  If every branch is experimental. Then there is no need to put ut in the title.

zozbot234 5mo ago

> there was zero indication this was an experiment The goal of Phase A is a **draft** `.rs` next to the `.zig` that captures the logic faithfully — it does **not** need to compile. Phase B makes it compile crate-by-crate. I mean, it would be hard to spell it out any clearer than that! Code that fails to compile is just not very useful for real work.

dspillett 5mo ago
Yes, but that would require people to read past the title. You can't get a proper knee-jerk first post in if you do that! Completely unfair to expect people to make that sacrifice/effort. [there was some sarcasm there, BTW, if anyone has a faulty detector that didn't pick up on it]
magicmicah85 5mo ago
Phase B clearly says compilation is the next goal. The first goal is to get a like for like logic, the second goal is to get it to compile. Can you guess what the third goal will be? Throw out the code?
- zozbot234 5mo ago
  The branch is named phase-a-port and the document explains what "phase-a" means. It's quite clear.

eigilsagafos 5mo ago

Can’t every branch be considered an experiment? I have a ton of experimental branches that I don’t label «experimental». One of the reasons you use git…

magicmicah85 5mo ago
Sure, but then how does it change anything around the discussion? You are still running an experiment to port to Rust, it still gets posted, the Rust-heads and Zig-heads still make their comments.
xboxnolifes 5mo ago
If every branch is experimental. Then there is no need to put ut in the title.