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by woodruffw 3mo ago
I really enjoyed this article. I grew up with a small amount of a similarly uncommon (outside of religious groups) Germanic language, one that I’ve learned more of as an adult, and many of the experiences (around struggling to get people to
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
I don’t have an opinion about whether Bun is poorly coded or not. I also don’t have an opinions on it being a good project or not. I do find these kinds of “get good” arguments tiresome, though. Our job as responsible engineers is to develo
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
There’s a difference between having a negative reaction, which is a natural human thing, and talking out of both sides of your mouth. You can also have negative things to say (or just strong opinions) without being indecorous or unkind.
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
The word “fuss” doesn’t occur in the original Bun article. I also don’t think that forking the compiler is a big fuss. Large companies do that all the time, to carry whatever patches they haven’t upstreamed yet (or can’t). It’s really not t
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
I don’t think the basic idea that Zig is less safe than a language like Rust (and therefore has different classes of “endemic” bugs) is controversial among Zig programmers. The points they make around explicit defers are a lot more subtle t
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
Ah yeah, I agree with you.
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
I don't understand how a port is a "provocation." That's a very cynical and transactional way of thinking about open source. (As for Anthropic's motivation: only they know. But I suspect that they saw Zig's AI
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
I really struggle to find a plain, non-motivated reading of the Bun's post that could be fairly described as a "trashing." It's a very bland post.
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
I want to be very clear: I don't dislike Andrew (or Jarred). Everything I've seen about him suggests that he's a bright and motivated person, and (like a lot of people, including myself) I suspect he struggles with how is ton
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
Yeah, I don’t mean to detract from the serious communication issues that other ecosystems have. (I don’t think committee/unstructured/BDFL communities do better as a rule, it’s more about the culture that’s promulgated by whoever
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
I find TigerBeetle very impressive. One of the impressive (and correct) decisions it made was to use an allocate-up-front pattern, which makes certain classes of temporal memory corruption harder to write. At the same time, TigerBeetle can
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
I honestly hope that isn’t true. I’ve interacted with some Zig projects (and some people I’d characterize as Zig evangelists, in a positive way), and my experiences with both were very good.
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
You haven’t answered it, and I can’t find a fair reading that would lend itself to that interpretation either. You can easily correct me by quoting the part of the Bun post that you find to be “making a big fuss.” (Surely a relatively bland
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
Where are they making a big fuss?
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
Are we talking about the same post? This is the one I’m talking about[1], and I can’t see where it’s claimed that Rust’s build times are better. Apologies if I’m missing it. (The one reference I found to Rust’s compile times is them talking
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
It’s marketing that is also technical writing. Most companies do this, and IMO we should prefer this over the alternative (which is corporate blogspam). Compare Cloudflare, the Google Chrome Security blog, etc.
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
I think we can quibble about the Bun post’s factual claims. But I don’t think the post was deceptive or dishonest in its claims. Like most technical writing, it represents a vantage point. As for ghosting in meetings: sure, that seems bad.
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
Yes, I think this is a good thing about Rust. (It’s of course a tradeoff, since Rust moves more slowly than I think a lot of people would prefer.)
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
Someone pays your living, I’m guessing. But I trust that you aren’t unduly motivated by their interests, because you’re a human with your own thoughts and opinions. I ask you kindly to grant me the same presumption.
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
Who knows? I certainly don’t. I think there were valid technical and professional criticisms in that post. For example, “Oven’s working culture was poor” is an excellent thing to communicate that I otherwise wouldn’t have any sense about.
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
I think their original post lays out the benefits pretty well. I think the realization of some of these benefits is debatable (for example, they probably could have made their existing Zig code faster), but others are straightforward (lik
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
Yep. If anything, this ought to bias me against Anthropic. But I don’t share my employer’s opinions about everything, as I assume you don’t. (Edit: I don’t understand the relevant of these links, to be clear. PyPI is a PSF-hosted project, b
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
I actually don’t work for the PSF, and have never received any money from the PSF. Thank you for imputing bias into my motives rather than responding to the comment, though.
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
The technical content of the Andrew’s post didn’t leave me with a negative opinion. To quote my original comment: > When I read the post, my first thought was that I wouldn’t want to build things in Zig, because any technical decision I
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
I didn’t say the other wasn’t technical. (I also don’t have any opinions about micro-celebrities or whatever else. I don’t know Jarred or Andrew, and I have priors about JavaScript that in any other context would naturally bias me against
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
It’s a huge stretch to call Bun’s post slander. It’s a relatively bland technical post with an extremely contextual negative opinion about Zig. I read both posts, and didn’t leave the Bun one with a negative opinion of Zig. But I did leav
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
I think like most people, I don’t have a problem with Andrew “calling a spade a spade,” even if I find his reasoning motivated. The bigger problem with the post is that it talks out of both ends of the mouth: it’s clearly meant as a persona
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
(I work on uv.) Can you say more? uv should always tell you if a wheel build fails, unless the build backend (which uv doesn’t control, unless you use uv’s own backend) decides to silently ignore a wheel build. This would be a bug in any gi
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
(Note: I work on Python tooling.) > for some reason we need 2-3 static analysis tools just for typechecking I don’t follow: you need one type checker, of which you have several options. It’s arguably not ideal to have more than one opt
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by woodruffw 3mo ago
Yeah, this is why I highlighted “stricter, but never weaker.”

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