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I wonder if this is a sign of AI companies trying to pivot? > Bun will ship faster. That'll last until FY 2027. This is an old lie that acquirers encourage the old owner to say because they have no power to enforce it, and they didn't actually say it so they're not on the hook. It's practically a cheesy pickup line, and given the context, it kinda is.
This is why we can't have nice things
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I'm sort of surprised to see that you used Claude Code so much. I had a vague idea that "Zig people" were generally "Software You Can Love" or "Handmade Software Movement" types, about small programs, exquisitely hand-written, etc, etc. And I know Bun started with an extreme attention to detail around performance. I would have thought LLM-generated code would run a bit counter to both of those. I had sort of carved t…
Handmade Cities founder here. We never associated with Bun other than extending an invitation to rent a job booth at a conference: this was years ago when I had a Twitter account, so it's fair if Jarred doesn't remember. If Handmade Cities had the opportunity to collaborate with Bun today, we would not take it, even prior to this acquisition. HMC wants to level up systems while remaining performant, snappy and butter…
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Isn't that still "acqui-hiring" according to common usage of the term? Sometimes people use the term to mean that the buyer only wants some/all of the employees and will abandon or shut down the acquired company's product, which presumably isn't the case here. But more often I see "acqui-hire" used to refer to any acquisition where the expertise of the acquired company are the main reason to the acquisition (rather t…
Acquihiring usually means that the product the team are working on will be ended and the team members will be set to work on other aspects of the existing company.
As someone who have been using Deno for the last few years, is there anything that Bun does better? Bun seems to use a different runtime (JSC) which is less tested than V8, which makes me assume it might perform worse in real-world tasks (maybe not anymore?). The last time I checked Bun's source code, it was... quite messy and spaghetti-like, plus Zig doesn't really offer many safety features, so it's not that hard t…
> I'll admit I'm somewhat biased against Bun? Why? Genuine question, sorry if it was said/implied in your original message and I missed it.
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> Nothing gives you long term stability in tech. Sure. But everything is relative. For instance, Node has much more likelihood of long term stability than Bun, given its ownership.
> Node has much more likelihood of long term stability than Bun Given how many more dependencies you need to build/maintain a Node app, your Bun application has a better chance of long term stability. With Node almost everything is third party (db driver, S3, router, etc) and the vast majority of NPM deps have dozens if not hundreds of deps.
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VCs do not invest for a modest return.
No, but faced with either a loss or a modest return, they'll take the modest return (unless it's more beneficial to not come tax season). Unicorns are called unicorns for a reason.
I work on Bun. Happy to answer any questions
I'm sort of surprised to see that you used Claude Code so much. I had a vague idea that "Zig people" were generally "Software You Can Love" or "Handmade Software Movement" types, about small programs, exquisitely hand-written, etc, etc. And I know Bun started with an extreme attention to detail around performance. I would have thought LLM-generated code would run a bit counter to both of those. I had sort of carved t…
This sounds so cringe. We are talking about computer code here lol
To some degree have “opinionated views on tech stacks” is unavoidable in LLMs, but this seems like it moves us towards a horrible future.
Imagine if claude (or gemini) let you as a business pay to “prefer” certain tech in generated code?
Its google ads all over again.
The thing is, if they own bun, and they want people to use bun, how can they justify not preferencing it on the server side?
…and once one team does it… game on!
It just seems like a sucky future, that is now going to be unavoidable.