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I really don't understand what's the big deal here. Anthropic converted Bun from Zig to Rust using Fable and used that for marketing, but do people blindly trus

I really don't understand what's the big deal here. Anthropic converted Bun from Zig to Rust using Fable and used that for marketing, but do people blindly trust them? Also isn't Zig still unstable and from that perspective regardless of how they did it, wouldn't it make sense to migrate it to a stable language?

coldtea 4mo ago
> but do people blindly trust them Judging from internet posts and HN comments, many do.
- sajithdilshan 4mo ago
  Then that's their own fault. Nothing to do with Anthropic, it could have been any other company putting out marketing material and people blindly trust them.
  - latexr 4mo ago
    I don’t understand the distinction you’re trying to make. Yes, “it could have been any other company”, but it wasn’t, it was this one. Had it been any other company, we’d be talking about that other company; because it was this one, we’re talking about this one.
    - sajithdilshan 4mo ago
      My point is that the article starts with > Anthropic is actively campaigning to end software engineering But that's true only if one believe what they are putting out blindly. Why not just call it a bluff and move on rather than making a mountain out of molehill
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      - coldtea 4mo ago
        >that's true only if one believe what they are putting out blindly That's true also if we see the impact their (and other frontier AI) tools have on employment and development practices.
- ksec 4mo ago
  >Judging from internet posts and HN comments, many do. Judging from the HN comments in the past on Bun's rewrite. I wouldn't even use the word "many". It was literally all Anti-AI comments and reckless engineering behaviour complain.
krupan 4mo ago
It's a big precisely because so many people are blindly trusting AI company marketing. It blows my mind how many people, especially here on once-subversive hacker news, are not just swallowing the marketing but they are doing the marketing for these companies for free. That's why it needs to be talked about!

coldtea 4mo ago

> but do people blindly trust them Judging from internet posts and HN comments, many do.

sajithdilshan 4mo ago
Then that's their own fault. Nothing to do with Anthropic, it could have been any other company putting out marketing material and people blindly trust them.
- latexr 4mo ago
  I don’t understand the distinction you’re trying to make. Yes, “it could have been any other company”, but it wasn’t, it was this one. Had it been any other company, we’d be talking about that other company; because it was this one, we’re talking about this one.
  - sajithdilshan 4mo ago
    My point is that the article starts with > Anthropic is actively campaigning to end software engineering But that's true only if one believe what they are putting out blindly. Why not just call it a bluff and move on rather than making a mountain out of molehill
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    - coldtea 4mo ago
      >that's true only if one believe what they are putting out blindly That's true also if we see the impact their (and other frontier AI) tools have on employment and development practices.
ksec 4mo ago
>Judging from internet posts and HN comments, many do. Judging from the HN comments in the past on Bun's rewrite. I wouldn't even use the word "many". It was literally all Anti-AI comments and reckless engineering behaviour complain.

krupan 4mo ago

It's a big precisely because so many people are blindly trusting AI company marketing. It blows my mind how many people, especially here on once-subversive hacker news, are not just swallowing the marketing but they are doing the marketing for these companies for free. That's why it needs to be talked about!