alt Hacker NewsI wonder if I'm the only one for whom the bun project vanished completely.
In software code is only part of the package. Stability and trust are big part of it, too. And for me 1800 files change PRs created by Anthropic overseen by one person is not necessarily adding to the package.
Even it that'd be the best code and design in the world, I won't use it. I don't trust it.
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The entire RIIR saga , not the fact that it's rewritten in a different language, but how the author selectively choose to let certain information surface without clarification, tells you a lot
Personally not interested in performative/marketing-driven decision so I am done with the project and the author. Quite disappointed
Everyone's excited about using AI to make their quick end products. But no-one wants to actually build on or rely on vibe-coded frameworks, languages, or tools.
Yeah, I have prepared our company software for migration back to node.
I would like to read the promised Jarred's blog post (if it ever comes out) before pulling the plug though.
"Even it that'd be the best code and design in the world, I won't use it. I don't trust it."
Nothing about this sentence makes sense. What don't you trust about code you can see and audit yourself? What's untrustworthy about "the best code and design in the world"?
Anthropic stuff runs on Bun, that's why they bought it. Should they be careful with Bun? Could Anthropic be a high value target for someone?
I was already not much interested into it, now even less.
I agree with you. Human is a forgetful race, they just unlearned the zlib lesson.
Edit: fixed typos.
The problem is that you need to twist the cube
> And for me 1800 files change PRs created by Anthropic overseen by one person is not necessarily adding to the package.
Bun is mostly AI written and AI reviewed at this point (all automated).
The 1-person is luxury.
might as well use openclaw at this point. that's the same vibe I'm getting with bun. from engineering excellence and jesus this guy really sweats the details (using zig woah!) to wow this is just openclaw ai permagenerated stuff. not a fan
So you were fine with AI writing zig code, but AI writing rust is a step too far?
For me it’s still up in the air. I won’t bet against them just yet. Also, did they say only one person reviewed it? I really doubt that. Don’t assume that what you can see on GitHub is the sum of all actions taken.
Im here with ya :)
It looks like quite a lot of analysis went into the rewrite
https://bun.com/bun-unsafe-audit
If the tests pass, then why not accept the rewrite?
An interesting article of Prisma using the rewrite:
I was willing to gloss over the AI usage because I really like the Bun DX. I used Bun in Shell scripts and small prototypes before and decided to use it for something bigger.
But then in a week or so of use, tons of issues appeared. Use-after-free bugs when a client disconnects (both in Zig and the Rust port, funnily enough) which will kill Bun. Unimplemented feature which just return “0” always. Many backpressure bugs which means something like “return new Response(fs.createReadStream(bigFile))” will greedily read and OOM your box.
All of these have been reported, robobun has made fixes of various quality, but none of this has been addressed. Some of them have been reported for months.
I’d prefer Bun to work on stability rather than fancy features like image processing or threads.