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Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc

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Re: Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc

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Post by pyonpyon »

thedevilslawyer wrote: post #19
pyonpyon wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm using it 50% English (personal projects)/50% Polish (workplace; reasons being agents.md / team is not that english proficient) and honestly I haven't seen much difference in the output/ambiguity. Polish prompts tend to be shorter due to the language having a lot of verb forms/conjugations, the only "bad" thing for me is that when it's saying "it broke" it tends to use uncanny / blunt words that make me sometimes…

Interesting. Some questions: Would you say polish is more dense or less dense than english? It's interesting to hear that code quality is not suffering but the response text is sillier or blunter. Any other descrepenacies compared to English?

I would say it certainly can be more dense but even if it's more dense, the tokenizers count it as more. Last time I checked in OpenAI tokenizer for my agents.md it ate 30/40%~ more tokens than the English version at roughly 1:1 meaning.

Re: Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc

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Post by aurareturn »

pjmlp wrote: post #15
aurareturn wrote: post #5

6 days of work to do this. Even if it doesn't end up becoming meaningful, it shows just how tokens and work done will be linked now and in the future. It's going to be hard to compete with someone or a company that has more compute. They will just be able to do things you can't.

With less employees....

Isn’t just one guy?

Re: Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc

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Post by scared_together »

m4rtink wrote: post #22

What license is this ? Let me guess, its is no GPL...

Unlike the GNU coreutils rewrite in Rust, the Bun rewrite in Rust is being undertaken by the owners of the project.

That said, yes, you’re correct that Bun isn’t GPL: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun?tab=License-1-ov-file

Re: Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc

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Post by _woland »

anilgulecha wrote: post #9

I think the industry is moving to English as the programming language, and specifications-context-tdd as the framework for building software. Many find it distasteful, and many finding liberating. I think it's broadly correlates with how they feel about expressing themselves in english vs say C++. As a side question, is there anyone who's using LLMs primarily in non-english mode to program? I suspect there's quite a…

I'm using it in english / albanian. Not much difference really. Impressive.

Re: Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc

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Post by twoodfin »

aurareturn wrote: post #5

6 days of work to do this. Even if it doesn't end up becoming meaningful, it shows just how tokens and work done will be linked now and in the future. It's going to be hard to compete with someone or a company that has more compute. They will just be able to do things you can't.

You could have said the same thing about steam power or electricity. And it’s not just an analogy: The magic of these things is in being universal information engines. You spend capital to build them, using well-understood, scalable techniques, plug them into electricity, and out comes value.

My point is, there’s no chance of a “haves and have nots” emerging, any more than electricity turned out that way in the modern world.

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