{"slug": "buz-a-drop-in-replacement-for-bun-using-modern-zig-with-sub-1s-incremental", "title": "Buz - A drop-in replacement for Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds", "summary": "Ray Myers, a software developer, announced at the Software Should Work conference that his project Bunsen, a fork of the Bun JavaScript runtime, uncovered 50 new memory bugs by using language-aware tooling rather than AI agents alone. Myers offered to collaborate with Buz creator Jazzzoo on disciplined agentic workflows, acknowledging the Zig community's skepticism toward large language models.", "body_md": "Hi [@jazzzooo](https://ziggit.dev/u/jazzzooo), Buz looks interesting.\n\nI also tinkered with the pre-rewrite Bun code in what I called [Bunsen](https://github.com/raymyers/bunsen), but just from the perspective of catching bugs, not improving the code yet. I think I surfaced new 50 memory bugs. This was a stunt for my talk at [Software Should Work](https://softwareshould.work/) conference last week, showing that adding language-aware toolchain beats agents alone.\n\nI’m not qualified to say what good Zig idioms would be in Bun because I learned Zig just for this, but I’d hoped if I there were other people working on this (like you are) it would be a good way to learn.\n\nSomething I could bring to the table is that I’ve worked a lot with disciplined agentic workflows that avoid the pitfalls, so if there’s a desire to experiment with strict harness I could help. I respect that in this community there is a lot of LLM-skepticism, in fact I wish more people had thought like you because we might have had a more balanced rollout overall.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/buz-a-drop-in-replacement-for-bun-using-modern-zig-with-sub-1s-incremental", "canonical_source": "https://ziggit.dev/t/buz-a-drop-in-replacement-for-bun-using-modern-zig-with-sub-1s-incremental-builds/16891#post_17", "published_at": "2026-07-26 03:54:19+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-26 04:23:26.818544+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools"], "entities": ["Ray Myers", "Bunsen", "Bun", "Buz", "Jazzzoo", "Software Should Work"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/buz-a-drop-in-replacement-for-bun-using-modern-zig-with-sub-1s-incremental", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/buz-a-drop-in-replacement-for-bun-using-modern-zig-with-sub-1s-incremental.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/buz-a-drop-in-replacement-for-bun-using-modern-zig-with-sub-1s-incremental.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/buz-a-drop-in-replacement-for-bun-using-modern-zig-with-sub-1s-incremental.jsonld"}}