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Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by locknitpicker »

chatmasta wrote: post #501
hoppp wrote: post #497

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It's fine but why is Js a good language for agents? I mean sure its faster than python but wouldn't something that compiles to native be much better?

JS has the fastest, most robust and widely deployed sandboxing engines (V8, followed closely by JavaScriptCore which is what Bun uses). It also has TypeScript which pairs well with agentic coding loops, and compiles to the aforementioned JavaScript which can run pretty much anywhere.

> It also has TypeScript which pairs well with agentic coding loops, (...)

I've heard that TypeScript is pretty rough on agentic coding loops because the idiomatic static type assertion code ends up requiring huge amounts of context to handle in a meaningful way. Is there any truth to it?

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by ohyoutravel »

adventured wrote: post #492
vector_spaces wrote: post #469

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I am not your target with this question (I don't write Zig) but there is a spectrum of LLM usage for coding. It is possible to use LLMs extensively but almost never ship LLM generated code, except for tiny trivial functions. One can use them for ideation, quick research, or prototypes/starting places, and then build on that. That is how I use them, anyway Culturally I see pure vibe coders as intersecting more with en…

I'll give you a basic example where it saved me a ton of time to vibe code instead of doing it myself, and I believe it would hold true for anyone. Creating ~50 different types of calculators in JavaScript. Gemini can bang out in seconds what would take me far longer (and it's reasonable at basic tailwind style front-end design to boot). A large amount of work smashed down to a couple of days of cumulative instructio…

Yeah I had OpenAI crank out 100 different fizzbuzz implementations in a dozen seconds—-and many of them worked! No chance a developer would have done it that fast, and for anyone who needs to crank out fizzbuzz implementations at scale this is the tool to beat. The haters don’t know what they’re talking about.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by losvedir »

abnercoimbre wrote: post #625
kopochameleon wrote: post #572

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Finding this comment interesting, parent comment didn't suggest any past association but it seemingly uses project reference as pivot point to do various outgroup counter signaling / neg bun?

I understand the concern, but really? I found this quote enough to offer proper comments: > had a vague idea that "Zig people" were generally "Software You Can Love" or "Handmade Software Movement" types Folks at Bun are "Zig people" for obvious reasons, and a link was made with Handmade software. This happened multiple times before with Bun specifically, so my response is not a "pivot" of any kind. I've highlighted…

Indeed, you cleared up exactly the misconception I had. Thanks for chiming in to clarify

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by [deleted] »

abnercoimbre wrote: post #625
kopochameleon wrote: post #572

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Finding this comment interesting, parent comment didn't suggest any past association but it seemingly uses project reference as pivot point to do various outgroup counter signaling / neg bun?

I understand the concern, but really? I found this quote enough to offer proper comments: > had a vague idea that "Zig people" were generally "Software You Can Love" or "Handmade Software Movement" types Folks at Bun are "Zig people" for obvious reasons, and a link was made with Handmade software. This happened multiple times before with Bun specifically, so my response is not a "pivot" of any kind. I've highlighted…

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Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by kristianp »

abnercoimbre wrote: post #484
losvedir wrote: post #446

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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…

I like that the filepilot download is 2.1MB. That really illustrates the difference between handmade style stuff and well, most other stuff.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by kuekacang »

piskov wrote: post #493

Genuine question: why js? Why not something like c#: native, fast, crossplatform, strongly-typed, great tooling, supports both scripting (ie single file-based) and compiled to a binary with no dependency whatsoever (nativeAOT), great errors and error stacks, list goes on. All great for AI to recover during its iterations of generating something useful. Genuinely perplexed.

One other angle yet mentioned: JS is browser native. No matter how slow it is, browser is now the LCD. Similar server-client codebase, while ugly, is another plus.

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Post by the__alchemist »

wrboyce wrote: post #640
yellow_lead wrote: post #546

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Java can run anywhere too

It’s relevant enough that I feel I can roll out this bash.org classic… Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders EDIT: someone has (much to my joy) made an archive of bash.org so here is a link[1], but I must say I’m quite jealous of today’s potential 1/10,000[2] who will discover bash.org from my comment! [1] https://bash-org-archive.co…

I found another appropriate XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1682/

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by ambicapter »

serial_dev wrote: post #179
mritchie712 wrote: post #68

> At the time of writing, Bun's monthly downloads grew 25% last month (October, 2025), passing 7.2 million monthly downloads. We had over 4 years of runway to figure out monetization. We didn't have to join Anthropic. I believe this completely. They didn't have to join, which means they got a solid valuation. > Instead of putting our users & community through "Bun, the VC-backed startups tries to figure out monetizat…

> I believe this a bit less. They weren’t acquired and got paid just to build tooling as before and now completely ignoring monetization until the end of times.

Good for them, could be bad for actual users.
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