From compression to cryptography to networking to the web browser you're reading this on, the world runs on C. If it's not written in C, it speaks the C ABI (C++, Rust, Zig, etc) and is available as a C library. C and the C ABI are the past, present, and future of systems programming. That's why in Bun v1.1.28, we introduced experimental support for compiling and running native C from JavaScript