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But according to Andrew Kelly, Bun was full of bad Zig practices. So why did they keep pushing forward with Zig?
by jdw64 3mo ago
But according to Andrew Kelly, Bun was full of bad Zig practices. So why did they keep pushing forward with Zig?
- romanovcode 3mo agoBecause their ego got hurt that a big project decided to not use their "amazing" language.
- virajk_31 3mo agoNo it's vice versa
- aureate 3mo agoIndeed it's surprising, given the zig compiler famously causes all developers who use it to merge into a single organism with a combined nervous system.
- Juncture0 3mo agoIt seems you misunderstand what happened to Bun: Anthropic has burned some investor money for a PR stunt -- our LLM can port this -- and also to punish Zig which dared to ban LLM contributions by taking away a significant project from the ecosystem. It worked, Rust didn't dare to enact a similar ban.
- virajk_31 3mo agoAnthropic tried hard to port using their LLMs but their models were not trained on enough zig corpus hence failed and they blamed it on Zig's principles
- Zambyte 3mo agoClaude Code uses Bun written in Rust now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966569 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966569 What failed?
- virajk_31 3mo agoPlease re-read my comment, I didn't mention anything about Rust. (IK they later switched to Rust. A year ago no LLMs were good at rust, similar to zig today, however its different story now)
- samtheprogram 3mo agoYou wrote "port", perhaps you meant "maintain"?
- Zambyte 3mo agoWhat failed?
- nfbdhdfbf 3mo ago… failed to maintain it in Zig due to the LLM issues. You misread
- naiveter 3mo agoDo you have a source for that?
- virajk_31 3mo agoWhy would Anthropic ever admit this?