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Congratulations to everyone who uses Bun. You're now working as alpha testers for Anthropic... for free. Anyone using Bun should consider migrating away immediately. Not because of the LLM angle, but because of how insanely irresponsible this is.
By reading this thread I've learned that, apparently, you are not allowed to rewrite a large piece of software backed by a large test suite in another language within two weeks otherwise you are a witch and need to be burned on a stake. You are also not allowed to move from the PoC phase to lets-do-it phase within a couple of days without being called names. Why are we concerned with speed all of a sudden? Are we in…
> "Apparently if you build a submersible with carbon fiber you are a witch and need to be burned on a stake. But look we're making reliable trips down to the Titanic with no problems."
Realistically, this is a forum of experienced engineers watching a company make some extremely questionable but very flashy engineering decisions. There's going to be a lot of people standing around here going "gee I dunno, that seems questionable".
Personally, I think the rewrite will largely work - logically, direct translations from one language to another are pretty well within the realm of the few things LLMs should perform extremely well at. But I also think more information will come out showing this was much more bespoke than just prompting an agent to do the translation. This just feels too much like an ad for Anthropic, I think it's likely there was a lot more human involvement and planning than we are being told.
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See what coming?! I really don't understand what's going on here. Correctly predicted what, that Bun was being rewritten into Rust? I'm not sure anyone doubted that, all the work they did was public??? What on earth is going on here?
It's really simple. 9 days ago this is how the migration was described: > 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…
There is no way a human rewrite like this wouldn't be roughly at the same stage with a 9 day delta. In that case, some of these accusations would be reasonable to make. But that is not the case here.
By reading this thread I've learned that, apparently, you are not allowed to rewrite a large piece of software backed by a large test suite in another language within two weeks otherwise you are a witch and need to be burned on a stake. You are also not allowed to move from the PoC phase to lets-do-it phase within a couple of days without being called names. Why are we concerned with speed all of a sudden? Are we in…
By reading this thread I've learned that, apparently, you are not allowed to rewrite a large piece of software backed by a large test suite in another language within two weeks otherwise you are a witch and need to be burned on a stake. You are also not allowed to move from the PoC phase to lets-do-it phase within a couple of days without being called names. Why are we concerned with speed all of a sudden? Are we in…
Heavy implications on how the future will be formed if things go well with this port. It would prove a lot of people wrong if things go well 3 months down the road.
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https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/security Surprisingly, they appear to have not disclosed any vulnerabilities whatsoever. It's likely there have been numerous vulnerabilities in the past, but they are all being ignored. https://x.com/DavidSherret/status/2031432509301428644
This is really poor form given that Anthropic is going around getting all kinds of public goodwill for finding CVEs in other people’s products.
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Yes, or you could review the code.
Even before AI, deterministic checks by compilers are almost always better than "review the code" "review the code" as a solution will eventually fail and cause a problem, even pre-AI.
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"We haven’t committed to rewriting. There’s a very high chance all this code gets thrown out completely."
People conflate “high chance of X” with “X will happen” all the time. See elections, for example.
This isn't case of this tho. Even he said that there is a high chance of RIIR, 9 days still insanely short time for such rewrite if you're planning to have some sort of community around the project.
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1. Get hired into a company where you have a solid bet on making multi-century lasting generational wealth (>$50,000,000). 2. Every waking moment do everything in your power to boost the company that might give you the ability to define the direction of technology for the rest of your life. 3. Use the only thing you have (bun) to help push you in this direction and do things to help boost LLM marketing (a technology…
I’m honestly confused. What is it that you think makes these workers “more evil” than Google and Facebook workers from the early 2010s?
About 9 days ago, Jarred wrote that it was far from certain that this would merge and that it was an overreaction. Ironic.