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Can you elaborate on the unusual part?
All necessary memory is allocated at initialization. The application is not allowed any allocations during it's normal runtime. This is how it avoid memory bugs. Not a lot of people write programs this way.
All the emotion of speculations aside, how it runs? It boots faster yeah, but what about RAM and CPU usage? Weird dead loop or dead locks? If it run as good as before or even better, then that's kinda impressive. I'm a developer so I really don't like it when AI might took my job, but if everyone on this planet could create a software for themselves exactly as how they wanted with just a few simple demands, that will…
> Think of it as a democratization of technology Incredibly naive take when these models are closed behind (for now subsidized) paywalls. This "democratization" argument is so nauseating, seems like the Bun port to Rust as a marketing piece (the primary motivator) sold it well!
LLM is here to stay, keep denying the fact won't work. What does is to make the tech so abundant, it flushes the bad actors, such as for-profit AIs, completely out. It's either this, or get crushed by for-profit AIs, pick one.
Bah. Personally my take on the entire affair is quite negative, whatever Jarred or Simonw says about it. I think Bun owned by Anthropic and the entire rewrite with AI is not the real point (even if it's quite interesting, though). My take is that Jarred, and Bun,didn't demonstrate a serious, adult approach, from "this is my branch, you are overreacting" message to just proceeding with a 1mil+ PR merged in less than m…
I don't know, I feel as though Bun went about it much more maturely than zig at any point in the process, from the initial attempted zig compiler commit by the Bun team to the Zig dev team member response to the Bun Rust blog post. Also, I think that fallout over this whole event will definitely favor Bun versus Zig.
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I think you’re missing a word or two.
Based on comments elsethread, I think what was meant is: You can install it now with “bun upgrade --canary”, or something along those lines. However, people also report that the canary version doesn’t identify itself as version 1.4.
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Because there's no legal way to use Claude Code on subscription otherwise
Exactly. Their tech choices were not an issue because other things mattered more to users.
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Can you elaborate on the unusual part?
All necessary memory is allocated at initialization. The application is not allowed any allocations during it's normal runtime. This is how it avoid memory bugs. Not a lot of people write programs this way.
Why not just use Deno that's made in Rust and also has safety in mind?
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Why not using Swift?
Swift is very weak outside Apple ecosystem, compared to Rust. Not sure nowadays, but Swift used to have breaking changes each major release, that's a non go for a big project.