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Mitchell Hashimoto 談程式語言的「可替代性」:Bun 從 Zig 改寫為 Rust 揭示的 AI 時代新常態

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HashiCorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto shared a thought-provoking perspective on the news that Bun — the popular JavaScript runtime — is…

HashiCorp 創辦人 Mitchell Hashimoto 針對 Bun 從 Zig 改寫為 Rust 發表看法。他指出,過去程式語言具有強大的「鎖定效應」,但如今已變得高度可替代(fungible)。Bun 證明了他們能在短短一兩週內將程式碼移植到任何語言,這意味著在 AI 與代理工程(Agentic Engineering)時代,程式語言只是工具,隨時可以被拋棄與替換。

HashiCorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto shared a thought-provoking perspective on the news that Bun — the popular JavaScript runtime — is being rewritten from Zig to Rust. He argues that programming languages used to carry an extremely high "lock-in effect": once a project committed to a particular language, the cost of switching was prohibitively high. But this reality is undergoing a fundamental change.

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