Tech news picked on 2026-05-10
Bun Switches from Zig to Rust: Why a High-Performance JS Runtime Changes Its Language
- Bun creator Jarred Sumner announced that the version rewritten in Rust passed 99.8% of the existing tests.
- Zig was initially chosen because it made handling JavaScriptCore easier, but the lack of a package registry and fewer developers available to recruit eventually became a bottleneck.
- This is an example showing that choosing an unfamiliar language based solely on initial performance can lead to the cost of rewriting everything as the team grows.
Quadruple Growth of U.S. Federal AI Opens B2G SaaS Opportunities: The Playbook Proven by Palantir
- The U.S. federal government's use of AI has quadrupled in just two years.
- Microsoft, Google, and Palantir control the infrastructure, but the vertical B2G SaaS space to automate specific tasks for specific agencies on their FedRAMP-certified clouds remains open.
- Palantir's big contracts were more due to its data integration architecture than AI.
- Let's begin by choosing the first client agency and one task to automate.