Exploring Zig: A Low-Level Programming Language

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Jared Sumner about why and how he created Bun, what Zig is, and the future of Bun.

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• 00:37 Welcome
• 01:44 Who is Jared Sumner?
• Jarred Sumner on Twitter
• Bun
• Bun Discord
• Bun on GitHub
• 02:31 Why did you make Bun?
• 09:43 Using web API vs Node modules?
• 13:25 Do we still use npm?
• 15:42 Support for HTML Rewriter
• 16:46 Where do you see Bun being used?
• 19:25 Do you think someone will write a type checker?
• 21:18 Sponsor: Tuple
• 22:07 What is Zig?
• 24:57 Did you have a history of learning languages?
• 28:16 Have you ever thought of putting Bun on hardware?
• 29:59 Is there a package.json file in Bun projects?
• 31:34 What can’t Node just get faster?
• 32:16 What is the future of Bun?
• 36:27 Thoughts on types in JavaScript?
• 41:16 Why did you build an SQLite client into Bun?
• 42:54 Supper Club questions
• Starship
• Warp
• 48:52 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

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