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rvztoday at 11:38 AM1 replyview on HN

This is quite an interesting read from Andrew's perspective. But one line tells me everything I needed to know.

> The blog post is expertly written. It's almost like the marketing department of a trillion dollar company has a lot of money riding on this article.

Even Andrew knew that this was going to be Anthropic's marketing opportunity for AI to rewrite Bun from Zig into Rust. This post from Jarred says it all. [0] If you have access to hundreds of billions worth of resources (infinite tokens and compute), they don't care what others think and some relationships are just cheap to discard.

Like I said before in [1] and [2], Bun (now Anthropic) does not care about you. They did this to market the capabilities of their AI models and this rewrite was an example of that in broad daylight. Even if Zig allowed AI generated contributions, this move was going to happen anyway.

I cannot believe that many commenters in [0] at the time did not see that this rewrite was eventually going to happen.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019226

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240829

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073893


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androiddrewtoday at 12:03 PM

Yeah 100% they were going to do this anyways.