Bun honestly seems cool. But this creepy ass intro video is icky.
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#122Why do these people look and talk so stiff in the video?
Engineers are typically not the best performers/entertainers.
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How are you deciding that either of these things worked out fine
Well if you ignore all the issues and declare victory, I think you’ll find it’s possible to decide anything is fine.
Best to stand on an aircraft carrier, that really sells the message.
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#126It's weird their promotional video repeats "you can do without installing dependencies", if I want headless browser testing is that wrong to install a project that offers that? Why would I want everything reimplemented in this massive binary? Why would Bun be anymore in touch with nuances of all these different technologies then individual projects dedicated to their own speciality? JS Runtime, Package Manager, Test…
Its strange how flip floppy the JS ecosystem is, because go back literally 1-3 years or so and the BIGGEST complaint was the lack of a standard library and having to use a package for everything. But now that Bun is actually doing it its somehow bad? Its also still open source, so those implementations you mention need dedicated teams can still get the attention they need by the community if needed. I'm on the side t…
I could argue that one implementation adding these things does not make a std library. You lose portability and fracture the ecosystem, which is probably one of their intentions
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I think around $300-400k, but that does not include the github issue/pr/ci stuff that runs continuously, which could double or triple it. Somewhere, the first two weeks were said to be about $200k.
That total assumes API billing rates, which isn't what Anthropic pays for the inference. So I'm confused why people keep quoting that. It's not representative of what it'd cost for you either because you could use cheaper models.
Yeah, when you spend billions in infrastructure you get to save $300k occasionally
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> Why would I want everything reimplemented in this massive binary? Why would Bun be anymore in touch with nuances of all these different technologies then individual projects dedicated to their own speciality? It's funny because the top article on HN is about a malicious rust crate package, and people keep making comparisons to js/npm and how both language suffer from frequent security issues because they have weak…
I saw a post recently about how LLMs are much more effective in Ruby on Rails because it's batteries included, so you don't get so many implementation details crapping up the context window. I assume the same benefit applies to humans as well!
I've read much of the same for Go. It's half true. Python doesn't have as many batteries but its common external packages are probably more present in training data than Go stdlib.
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#130It's weird their promotional video repeats "you can do without installing dependencies", if I want headless browser testing is that wrong to install a project that offers that? Why would I want everything reimplemented in this massive binary? Why would Bun be anymore in touch with nuances of all these different technologies then individual projects dedicated to their own speciality? JS Runtime, Package Manager, Test…
Some of these are situational, but many are expectations of a modern platform.
Take Python - the standard lib now has things like a toml parser, sqlite client.
And while I avoid the entire JS ecosystem as much as possible, a simple search to find a good Postgres client was not elucidating.
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/List_of_drivers two options - with node-postgres / pg seeming to be the most supported or postgres.js which has more abstractions but is less active
Contrast that to the question for Java, where it's clear the official JDBC driver is the best option.