MUST READ Pretense in Practice
Why We Rewrote Our Code Scanner in Rust: 27x Faster at 1.82ms
The technical story behind the Pretense Rust scanner rewrite: TypeScript took 50ms per scan in the proxy hot path, and Rust with Rayon and NAPI bindings brought it to 1.82ms. Includes benchmark methodology, the djb2+SHA-256 mutation algorithm, and lessons learned.