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> 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
It looks more political than technical. Also, criticizing the Zig team for not making any AI contributions before this gives a hint.
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
#342Completely unbased, but I don’t want to have to do anything with bun anymore. It’s just a gut feeling, but I don’t trust them and support them. They fork Zig to utilize LLM rewrites and build something the Zig team clearly disregarded (non-deterministic compiling) And now like a whiny baby they LLM rewrite to Rust. There is a very real chance that Zig design philosophy got them to the point where they are now by enfo…
> 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
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.
Re: Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
#343Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same but for multi-threaded Postgres[0]. 96% pg regression tests pass after 1 month and 823K LOC. 8 Codex accounts at $200/mo is what i could use up with no Mythos I've also seen the benefits of Rust for this too. And making the bet that my pg experience will help me make good design choices around many of the things people have been having trouble with in pg for a long time[1]. Excited to see AI make it more possibl…
wow! curious about your workflow for running all these accounts. different harnesses in parallel? manually switching in codex? 5.5pro only? what works for you?
[0] https://malisper.me/pgrust-rebuilding-postgres-in-rust-with-... [1] https://malisper.me/pgrust-update-at-67-postgres-compatibili... [2] https://github.com/loongphy/codex-auth
Re: Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
#344Completely unbased, but I don’t want to have to do anything with bun anymore. It’s just a gut feeling, but I don’t trust them and support them. They fork Zig to utilize LLM rewrites and build something the Zig team clearly disregarded (non-deterministic compiling) And now like a whiny baby they LLM rewrite to Rust. There is a very real chance that Zig design philosophy got them to the point where they are now by enfo…
> 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
Re: Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
#345Kinda crazy to use AI to switch from zig to rust in a tool that runs js. Bin bun and use a real lang to begin with. No reason to have that extra layer anymore.
bun script.ts just works.
Otherwise I bet it wouldn't even be a blip in our radar.
Re: Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
#346Earlier quoted context omitted.
cargo check reported over 16,000 compiler errors when I wrote that message. It could not print a version number or run JavaScript. I didn’t expect it to work this quickly and I also didn’t expect the performance to be as competitive. There’ll be a blog post with more details.
> I am so tired of worrying about & spending lots of time fixing memory leaks and crashes and stability issues. it would be so nice if the language provided more powerful tools for preventing these things. haven't used zig...(only used rust) but zig doesn't solve those problems?
Re: Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
#347From 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019226 > I work on Bun and this is my branch > > This whole thread is an overreaction. 302 comments about code that does not work. We haven’t committed to rewriting. There’s a very high chance all this code gets thrown out completely. > > I’m curious to see what a working version of this looks, what it feels like, how it performs and if/how hard it’d be to get i…
cargo check reported over 16,000 compiler errors when I wrote that message. It could not print a version number or run JavaScript. I didn’t expect it to work this quickly and I also didn’t expect the performance to be as competitive. There’ll be a blog post with more details.
Re: Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
#348Completely unbased, but I don’t want to have to do anything with bun anymore. It’s just a gut feeling, but I don’t trust them and support them. They fork Zig to utilize LLM rewrites and build something the Zig team clearly disregarded (non-deterministic compiling) And now like a whiny baby they LLM rewrite to Rust. There is a very real chance that Zig design philosophy got them to the point where they are now by enfo…
Re: Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
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Is your claim that using Zig ends in an "extremely high amount of crashes/memory bugs?" Wouldn't that mean that it isn't even feasible to make high-quality software with such a tool? There is a lot of quality stuff made with C/C++, so what is Zig doing wrong?
It is much harder to write quality stuff in c/c++ that doesn't have memory bugs (use after free, out of bounds access, use of unitialized memory, double free, memory races, etc.). I wouldn't say it isn't feasible to build high quality software in those languages, but even the highest quality software written in those languages has these types of bugs. Zig is better than c, and maybe a little bit better than c++, espe…
Re: Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
#350Earlier quoted context omitted.
"No one has the intention of building a wall" - Walter Ulbricht, chairman of the central committee, a couple of months before the Berlin Wall was built. The AI companies and their associates are beginning to surpass that level of denials and lies.
you know this whole exercise is both a marketing exercise and a way to make noise. would the world come to a standstill tomorrow if every Bun instance out there ran on Node.js ? they know their A.I can't sell without the noise that it's now on the edge of the frontier. this is hype. zig adopting a strict 'no LLM' policy affects the LLM vendors.