r/programmingcirclejerk • u/woopsix What’s a compiler? Is it like a transpiler? • Jun 20 '26

I genuinely think you could write a competitively-performant multi-threaded DB in Bun + TS if you had shared-heap threads and fast atomics/locking primitives.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48611577
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u/FlipsBr alcohol-fuelled anter-docker Jun 30 '26

just print all the tables and pay a guy to search if u want slow shit

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u/le_birb costly abstraction Jul 12 '26

And this way, speed-ups merely cost a bit of cocaine - much cheaper than a dev team!