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Re: Bun support is now limited and deprecated

#31

there could be recommended runtimes, but shouldn’t the runtime be user-configurable anyway?

There is no generic “JavaScript runtime” interface that runtimes would implement, therefore support must be tailored to the specific interfaces of existing runtimes.

Re: Bun support is now limited and deprecated

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Oh well, I really like using Bun and I get kinda sad about the turn they are taking after the Anthropic acquisition. I really want a good Node with batteries included, but I don't want it vibe coded.

I think it's hilarious how hopeful people were at the acquisition that Bun would be able to continue on mostly as it had been but then that all got completely thrown away and trashed. (Hilarious in the way that's terribly sad, of course.)

It usually takes years for someone's values to be thrown out the window! How long was this one?

Re: Bun support is now limited and deprecated

#33
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All dependency management is speculative. You've got to hedge your bets that the dependency is reliable and fit for purpose. It is reasonable to view Bun's recent choices as increasing the risk associated with depending on it.

Very much agree. Until the vibe-coded version has been fully audited and profiled to perform, within reasonable tolerances, as well as the original code base, it feels like a bad idea to support it downstream or use it in production.

Yes, but only if auditing includes an exhaustive human review of the code, not just passing the tests we (or an AI) thought to write.

Re: Bun support is now limited and deprecated

#34
post #11

Honestly I hope agentic AI ushers in a new age of minimal-SBOM software. I myself am moving all of my projects towards nearly 100% vanilla where possible. For example, golang. Why use [insert web framework] when you can just use vanilla for 99% of web apps? There's something really satisfying about a go binary with minimal dependencies running in a busybox docker container.

Wouldn't that be worse? With dependencies, it's at least possible that someone else has audited the code, but with a vibe-coded from scratch app, it's definitely totally unreviewed.

Re: Bun support is now limited and deprecated

#35
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All dependency management is speculative. You've got to hedge your bets that the dependency is reliable and fit for purpose. It is reasonable to view Bun's recent choices as increasing the risk associated with depending on it.

Very much agree. Until the vibe-coded version has been fully audited and profiled to perform, within reasonable tolerances, as well as the original code base, it feels like a bad idea to support it downstream or use it in production.

I'd hope that the bun team is going to put into the work to ensure the LLM translated version is up to snuff before cutting a release from it though... it doesn't seem fair to assume that that isn't going to happen.

Re: Bun support is now limited and deprecated

#37
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What part of the recent history of vibe coded projects has not resulted in low quality, bug laden code? Dismissing this a "purely speculative" is just like dismissing the weather report as "purely speculative" when deciding what to wear in the morning.

Low quality, bug laden code has existed long before LLMs and it'll continue to exist long after. Their rationale about avoiding future headaches could literally apply to any open source project they have a dependency on.

The existence of bad code doesn't mean you should be happy to accept it.

Re: Bun support is now limited and deprecated

#38
post #2

Oh well, I really like using Bun and I get kinda sad about the turn they are taking after the Anthropic acquisition. I really want a good Node with batteries included, but I don't want it vibe coded.

I think it's hilarious how hopeful people were at the acquisition that Bun would be able to continue on mostly as it had been but then that all got completely thrown away and trashed. (Hilarious in the way that's terribly sad, of course.)

How has it been trashed? Does the Bun software not work anymore?

Re: Bun support is now limited and deprecated

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post #24
post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What part of the recent history of vibe coded projects has not resulted in low quality, bug laden code? Dismissing this a "purely speculative" is just like dismissing the weather report as "purely speculative" when deciding what to wear in the morning.

Doesn’t bun have a massive test suite that the rewrite passes? What else do people want?

Tests are one quality control. It's horrifying that some of us treat them as the only thing that matters. There's review, obviously, and of course we haven't even had to think about "written by a thinking mind" as a beneficial quality until now.
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