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> And now like a winey baby they LLM rewrite to Rust. I didn't see any whining from Jarred, this seems like misplaced sentiment > It’s purely politics-based

by tln 5mo ago

> And now like a winey baby they LLM rewrite to Rust. I didn't see any whining from Jarred, this seems like misplaced sentiment > It’s purely politics-based The linked twitter thread gives clear technical justifications

cute_boi 5mo ago
It looks more political than technical. Also, criticizing the Zig team for not making any AI contributions before this gives a hint.
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jwpapi 5mo ago
> I am so tired of worrying about & spending lots of time fixing memory leaks and crashes and stability issues There are legit reasons to rewrite a program in a better fitting language, but as a runtime to be "tired of worrying about & spending lots of time fixing memory leaks and crashes and stability" is really borderline to me. Also there are way more things to it than just compile time and tests: you reset mental model and will lose contributers. There is philosophy, developer skill and more attached to a language. In this case both compile via LLVM the same and there is no performance benefit given the code is written exactly the same, so it’s developer preference, where the current head seemed to prioritize his own DX over everyone else’s. But again this is mainly my gut feeling. I’m not the first dev that doesn’t like the way bun changes : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011184 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011184
42iak18 5mo ago
"They" likely refers to Anthropic in this case rather than being an indeterminate singular pronoun: https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic I'm not sure if the 50% of people defending the whole rewrite live under a rock with regard to the acquisition or have never worked at a US company or a deliberately naive. Companies give instructions. Nothing of this is accidental or prompted by curiosity.
jwpapi 5mo ago
Jarreds Twitter is a Claude Code Billboard
- baranul 5mo ago
  Whether incidentally or intentionally, that rings true.

by tln 5mo ago

cute_boi 5mo ago

It looks more political than technical. Also, criticizing the Zig team for not making any AI contributions before this gives a hint.

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jwpapi 5mo ago

> I am so tired of worrying about & spending lots of time fixing memory leaks and crashes and stability issues There are legit reasons to rewrite a program in a better fitting language, but as a runtime to be "tired of worrying about & spending lots of time fixing memory leaks and crashes and stability" is really borderline to me. Also there are way more things to it than just compile time and tests: you reset mental model and will lose contributers. There is philosophy, developer skill and more attached to a language. In this case both compile via LLVM the same and there is no performance benefit given the code is written exactly the same, so it’s developer preference, where the current head seemed to prioritize his own DX over everyone else’s. But again this is mainly my gut feeling. I’m not the first dev that doesn’t like the way bun changes : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011184 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011184

42iak18 5mo ago

"They" likely refers to Anthropic in this case rather than being an indeterminate singular pronoun: https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic I'm not sure if the 50% of people defending the whole rewrite live under a rock with regard to the acquisition or have never worked at a US company or a deliberately naive. Companies give instructions. Nothing of this is accidental or prompted by curiosity.

jwpapi 5mo ago

Jarreds Twitter is a Claude Code Billboard

baranul 5mo ago
Whether incidentally or intentionally, that rings true.