1022: Bun re-written in Rust, Zig team big mad

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
  • Zig creator criticizes rewrite
• 28:18 GPT 5.6 Impressions
  • Ashley Peachock on X
  • Matt Shumer on X
• 40:58 Better Auth Acquired by Vercel
• 49:51 Grok Build CLI is stealing your code
  • International Cyber Digest on X
• 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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