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I think it's hilarious how hopeful people were at the acquisition that Bun would be able to continue on mostly as it had been but then that all got completely t

I think it's hilarious how hopeful people were at the acquisition that Bun would be able to continue on mostly as it had been but then that all got completely thrown away and trashed. (Hilarious in the way that's terribly sad, of course.)

abnercoimbre 6mo ago
It usually takes years for someone's values to be thrown out the window! How long was this one?
- em-bee 6mo ago
  changing your employer tends to accelerate that if the new employer has different values.
- htrp 6mo ago
  "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"
- wiseowise 6mo ago
  Give man a Claude subscription and he can work for a day, let Anthropic buy the man and he doesn’t need to work a day in his life anymore.
- LtWorf 6mo ago
  I don't think the man had any values to begin with. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243990 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243990
vosper 6mo ago
How has it been trashed? Does the Bun software not work anymore?
- happytoexplain 6mo ago
  >Does the Bun software not work anymore? Nobody knows.
- tedivm 6mo ago
  They literally threw out every line of code that existed before and rewrote it in a completely different language, seemingly on a whim. That's how it was trashed, in the very literal sense that all of the existing project was tossed in the trash in favor of a completely brand new code base. That's a big deal even if you ignore the coding agent aspects.
  - LoganDark 6mo ago
    The worst part is that they basically didn't review the new code at all other than making sure it passes tests. We have no idea what could be lurking in the codebase now, and it's even all completely un-idiomatic, Zig-ish Rust.
    - nullpoint420 6mo ago
      I swear they did this as a marketing ploy. To set the precedent that these large refactors are okay to do, and ingrain it in the engineering zeitgeist.
      - mannanj 6mo ago
        Kind of reminds me how Google starting putting on automatic AI processing of YouTube videos and shorts around the time of AI generated video and images. Their processing gave the videos artifacts that made them look more AI generated, making it harder to discern AI generated images, maybe to make demand for their watermark products.
      - LtWorf 6mo ago
        I mean, it's completely obvious and was the reason or the acquisition.
    - 6mo ago

abnercoimbre 6mo ago

It usually takes years for someone's values to be thrown out the window! How long was this one?

em-bee 6mo ago
changing your employer tends to accelerate that if the new employer has different values.
htrp 6mo ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"
wiseowise 6mo ago
Give man a Claude subscription and he can work for a day, let Anthropic buy the man and he doesn’t need to work a day in his life anymore.
LtWorf 6mo ago
I don't think the man had any values to begin with. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243990 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243990

vosper 6mo ago

How has it been trashed? Does the Bun software not work anymore?

happytoexplain 6mo ago
>Does the Bun software not work anymore? Nobody knows.
tedivm 6mo ago
They literally threw out every line of code that existed before and rewrote it in a completely different language, seemingly on a whim. That's how it was trashed, in the very literal sense that all of the existing project was tossed in the trash in favor of a completely brand new code base. That's a big deal even if you ignore the coding agent aspects.
- LoganDark 6mo ago
  The worst part is that they basically didn't review the new code at all other than making sure it passes tests. We have no idea what could be lurking in the codebase now, and it's even all completely un-idiomatic, Zig-ish Rust.
  - nullpoint420 6mo ago
    I swear they did this as a marketing ploy. To set the precedent that these large refactors are okay to do, and ingrain it in the engineering zeitgeist.
    - mannanj 6mo ago
      Kind of reminds me how Google starting putting on automatic AI processing of YouTube videos and shorts around the time of AI generated video and images. Their processing gave the videos artifacts that made them look more AI generated, making it harder to discern AI generated images, maybe to make demand for their watermark products.
    - LtWorf 6mo ago
      I mean, it's completely obvious and was the reason or the acquisition.
  - 6mo ago