alt Hacker News> And now like a winey baby they LLM rewrite to Rust.
I didn't see any whining from Jarred, this seems like misplaced sentiment
> It’s purely politics-based
The linked twitter thread gives clear technical justifications
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> I am so tired of worrying about & spending lots of time fixing memory leaks and crashes and stability issues
There are legit reasons to rewrite a program in a better fitting language, but as a runtime to be "tired of worrying about & spending lots of time fixing memory leaks and crashes and stability" is really borderline to me.
Also there are way more things to it than just compile time and tests: you reset mental model and will lose contributers. There is philosophy, developer skill and more attached to a language.
In this case both compile via LLVM the same and there is no performance benefit given the code is written exactly the same, so it’s developer preference, where the current head seemed to prioritize his own DX over everyone else’s.
But again this is mainly my gut feeling. I’m not the first dev that doesn’t like the way bun changes : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011184
"They" likely refers to Anthropic in this case rather than being an indeterminate singular pronoun:
https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic
I'm not sure if the 50% of people defending the whole rewrite live under a rock with regard to the acquisition or have never worked at a US company or a deliberately naive. Companies give instructions. Nothing of this is accidental or prompted by curiosity.
It looks more political than technical. Also, criticizing the Zig team for not making any AI contributions before this gives a hint.
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