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Re: Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged

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This will go down in history as the biggest mistake of software engineering of all time. Bun is the runtime of Claude Code, which is the core product of a trillion dollar company, which now sits on a vibe-coded app, where not a single person in the world has a proper mental model of.

On the other hand they might be super confident in the results, and if it goes well they might use is as an example of how good claude is

Re: Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged

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post #13

This will go down in history as the biggest mistake of software engineering of all time. Bun is the runtime of Claude Code, which is the core product of a trillion dollar company, which now sits on a vibe-coded app, where not a single person in the world has a proper mental model of.

Won't touch it with a ten foot pole.

Re: Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged

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post #26
post #13

This will go down in history as the biggest mistake of software engineering of all time. Bun is the runtime of Claude Code, which is the core product of a trillion dollar company, which now sits on a vibe-coded app, where not a single person in the world has a proper mental model of.

Maybe this is the best marketing trick for Claude Code ever. Maybe there was pressure from Anthropic to do this and prove the value. Even partial success is enough to prove the value, justify the value and usage, and AI dependency even further.

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Re: Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged

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vibe coders keep saying that now you can have 100x productivity, that you can write a million lines of code in a week and do what would take a team of 10 experienced developers a year.

where are all these million lines vibe coded projects? I don't see them. its all hype

Re: Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged

#37
post #13

This will go down in history as the biggest mistake of software engineering of all time. Bun is the runtime of Claude Code, which is the core product of a trillion dollar company, which now sits on a vibe-coded app, where not a single person in the world has a proper mental model of.

My initial reaction was that this is pure insanity but in fairness this is a fairly 1:1 port of existing code, so the developer's mental model of it should still match fairly well. For instance look at this Zig function: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/ed1a70f81708d7d137de8de0... Versus this Rust version: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/ed1a70f81708d7d137de8de0... I did pick that at random but it does look li…

It’s still 400k more lines

Re: Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged

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post #6

I'm actually excited for somebody trying experimenting with automated translation, but I'm afraid this will be lots of backwards compatibility issues. I started looking at the commits, and it's basically solving the ,,tests not pass'' problem by changing the tests themselves. The real work of making it working on programs that are already deployed will be just starting now. The only silver lining I see is that the se…

> I started looking at the commits, and it's basically solving the ,,tests not pass'' problem by changing the tests themselves. The real work of making it working on programs that are already deployed will be just starting now.

Wow, This is definitely quite something for sure.

Can jarred comment about if he has read the commits or not too or respond to your comment, this has basically made me lose the small faith I had in what bun is doing if it turns out to be correct.

Re: Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged

#40
post #26
post #13

This will go down in history as the biggest mistake of software engineering of all time. Bun is the runtime of Claude Code, which is the core product of a trillion dollar company, which now sits on a vibe-coded app, where not a single person in the world has a proper mental model of.

Maybe this is the best marketing trick for Claude Code ever. Maybe there was pressure from Anthropic to do this and prove the value. Even partial success is enough to prove the value, justify the value and usage, and AI dependency even further.

And as long as Bun doesn't break Claude code, which only uses a subset of it's APIs, this might just pay out.
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