Buz - A drop-in replacement for Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds

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.

Hi @jazzzooo https://ziggit.dev/u/jazzzooo , Buz looks interesting. I 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. I’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. Something 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.