Natanox 43 points 2 months ago

It's even more funny if you know the backstory of bun. It was basically the perfect example of how to not to do things before they burned a whole forrest to have Claude slop it into another language, based on a codebase that was measurably bad. Now nobody actually knows the whole codebase anymore.

Given the phenomenal garbage that are the other big vibecoded projects (like the "compiler that can compile Linux" - it can't) using bun now is just like lottery.

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PotatoesFall 10 points 2 months ago

What was wrong with bun before? I never used it just heard it had some great performance

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Natanox 55 points 2 months ago

The code quality apparently was abysmal and full of dirty hacks due to a mix of "beginner energy" and "go fast & break things" Silicom Valley mindset. The issues with bun (leading to the big Anthropic hack) were subtly blamed on the Zig language, even though Zig is completely fine; Bun's code (which already was full of bad generated slop at that point, as well as code by programmers who were treated badly -> more bad code) was just crap.

After Zig was blamed the Zig creator wrote a blogpost detailing all of it. Worth a read, certainly more human than the corposlop Anthropic announces.

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PotatoesFall 15 points 2 months ago

andrew kelley is such a cool guy his attitude alone made me want to learn zig

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hirihit640 24 points 2 months ago

What chart is this?

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weissbinder 19 points 2 months ago