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Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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dijit wrote: post #476
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…

fwiw, copilots licence only explicitly permits using its suggestions the way you say. putting everyone using the generated outputs into a sort of unofficial grey market: even when using first-party tools. Which is weird.

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Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by Schnitz »

yellow_lead wrote: post #546
ok_dad wrote: post #537

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Yea, they just posted this a few days ago: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use They discussed how running generated code is better for context management in many cases. The AI can generate code to retrieve, process, and filter the data it needs rather than doing it in-context, thus reducing context needs. Furthermore, if you can run the code right next to the server where the data is, it's all tha…

Java can run anywhere too

Anywhere where the correct Java version is installed correctly, important caveat

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by jatins »

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 think you may have confused parent commenter's "Handmade software movement" types comment to Handmade cities which doesn't seem related to me other than the common word handmade

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by auxiliarymoose »

groundzeros2015 wrote: post #565
throwawaymaths wrote: post #552

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run code anywhere hamstrung by 90s syntax and hidden code indirections

Haven’t checked in on Java in a while?

I tried to check in on Java recently but got a NullPointerException when using the AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean !

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by VerifiedReports »

manbash wrote: post #758
VerifiedReports wrote: post #752

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What do you mean by "context" here?

Under "Programmatic Tool Calling" > The challenge > Traditional tool calling creates two fundamental problems as workflows become more complex: > Context pollution from intermediate results: When Claude analyzes a 10MB log file for error patterns, the entire file enters its context window, even though Claude only needs a summary of error frequencies. When fetching customer data across multiple tables, every record ac…

Thanks for the reply.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by socketcluster »

Bun is pretty cool. I maintain a Node.js library and updated my Node.js engine version and my library just didn't work on the latest version... In frustration, I decided to try Bun for the first time... I had never used it before but my library worked straight away, no warnings, no errors. I have never seen that level of compatibility before when a library works better with an alternative engine than the one it was designed for.

I did end up fixing Node.js compatibility later but it was extra work. Felt like they just created busy-work. Node.js maintainers should stop deprecating perfectly good features and complicating their modules.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by kyyol »

jannes wrote: post #392
Jarred wrote: post #361

I work on Bun. Happy to answer any questions

Congrats on the payday :) Do you think Anthropic might request you implement private APIs?

This is an interesting question; not to be too naive, but are there examples in the wild about this scenario? First I’ve heard of private APIs for something open source like this and my interest is piqued!

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by jimbob45 »

Schnitz wrote: post #762
yellow_lead wrote: post #546

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Java can run anywhere too

Anywhere where the correct Java version is installed correctly, important caveat

Java’s cardinal sin was not owning the OS like Microsoft’s C# to force end-users to update the framework. Oracle really didn’t understand what they were sitting on with their Ubuntu competitor Solaris.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by [deleted] »

AndyKelley wrote: post #698
Tiberium wrote: post #166

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Good question, hard to say, but I think it's mainly because of Zig. At its core Zig is marketed as a competitor to C, not C++/Rust/etc, which makes me think it's harder to write working code that won't leak or crash than in other languages. Zig embraces manual memory management as well.

> At its core Zig is marketed as a competitor to C, not C++/Rust/etc What gives you this impression? I directly created Zig to replace C++. I used C++ before I wrote Zig. I wrote Zig originally in C++. I recently ported Chromaprint from C++ to Zig, with nice performance results. I constantly talk about how batching is superior to RAII. Everyone loves to parrot this "Zig is to C as Rust is to C++" nonsense. It's some…

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