July 20th, 2026 × #Bun#Rust#Zig#JavaScript
Bun re-written in Rust, Zig team big mad
Bun just got rewritten in Rust and the Zig crowd is not happy about it. Wes and Scott dig into what happened and what it means for your JavaScript runtime.
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CJ and Scott break down the biggest week in web dev: TypeScript 7 ships with a 10x-faster native port, Bun gets rewritten in Rust (much to the Zig team's dismay), and Better Auth joins Vercel. Plus GPT-5.6 first impressions, Odin 1.0, Cloudflare's new Workers cache and drag-and-drop deploys, and the OpenCode 2 beta.
Show Notes
- 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- 00:21 CJ upgraded his homelab network
- 02:09 TypeScript 7 is 10x faster
- 11:19 Bun Rust rewrite drama
- 28:18 GPT 5.6 Impressions
- 40:58 Better Auth Acquired by Vercel
- 49:51 Grok Build CLI is stealing your code
- 56:00 Cloudflare Worker Cache and Drop
- 01:01:22 Check out CJ's latest video I Built an LLM from Scratch
- 01:03:06 Odin 1.0 Announced
- 01:05:33 OpenCode 2.0 Beta released
- 01:07:32 Winamp Skin Museum
- 01:11:08 CJ's new MP3 player
- 01:13:03 Scott's Robot Update
Sick Picks
- Scott: Reachy Mini
- CJ: Snowsky Echo Mini
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