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Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by matwood »

justatdotin wrote: post #802
aizk wrote: post #781

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TS is enormous, has endless training data, and can interact with virtually anything on the Internet these days. Also, strong typing is very very useful for AI coding context.

> strong typing is very very useful for AI coding context what makes you think so? I believe strong typing is very very useful for human coding, I'm not convinced its so 'very very' for agents.

When I've use agents with TS, failing tests due to typing seems to help the agent get to the correct solution. Maybe it's not required though.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by conartist6 »

locknitpicker wrote: post #800
miguelspizza wrote: post #732

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Not sure where you heard this but general sentiment is the opposite. There was recently a conference which was themed around the idea that typescript monorepos are the best way to build with AI

> Not sure where you heard this but general sentiment is the opposite. My personal experience and anecdotal evidence is in line with this hypothesis. Using the likes of Microsoft's own Copilot with small simple greenfield TypeScript 5 projects results in surprisingly poor results the minute you start leaning heavily on type safety and idiomatic techniques such as branded types. > There was recently a conference which…

It's especially tricky since monorepos are an obvious antipattern to begin with. They're a de-separation of concerns: an encouragement to blur the unit boundaries, not write docs, create unstable APIs (updating all usages at once when they change), and generally to let complexity spread unchecked.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by vidarh »

OrangeMusic wrote: post #810
wiz21c wrote: post #796

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Java is owned by Oracle. And you sure don't want to do business with that company. There's a reason why postgresql is slowly eating their cake.

This is FUD. Java has many open source implementations and nobody needs to deal with Oracle.

Even if we postulate that he fear is unwarranted and irrational, the fear is still real, based on Oracles history of lawsuits, and so the explanation still holds.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by sfn42 »

bossyTeacher wrote: post #621
Zambyte wrote: post #617

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Java can be depended on without buying anything.

Java's price is your time which you will need tons of as Java is highly verbose. The ultimate enterprise language

This is such a crappy point. People say it's better now but even in java 8 it's just BS. Oh boo hoo I have to write a few extra words here and there. Woe is me. The IDE will autogenerate the boilerplate for you, you don't even have to write it yourself. And once it's there it's actually useful, there's a reason it exists.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by cyco130 »

notnullorvoid wrote: post #708

I am more shocked about the origin story compared to the acquisition. > Almost five years ago, I was building a Minecraft-y voxel game in the browser. The codebase got kind of large, and the iteration cycle time took 45 seconds to test if changes worked. Most of that time was spent waiting for the Next.js dev server to hot reload. Why in the hell would anyone be using Next.js to make a 3D game... Jarred has always se…

First time I see it being a net positive that someone didn't know about Vite: Bun wouldn't exist otherwise.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by matwood »

Aurornis wrote: post #485
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…

> 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. In my experience, the extreme anti-LLM people and extreme pro-vibecoding people are a vocal online minority. If you get away from the internet yelling match, the typical use case for LLMs is in the middle. Experienced developers use them for som…

Yep. And there's a lot of people making use of LLMs in both coding and learning/searching doing exactly that.

One of my favorite things is describing a bug to an LLM and asking it to find possible causes. It's helped track something down many times, even if I ultimately coded the fix.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by post_below »

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…

As one of the lucky 1/10000, holy shit that was amazing. Thank you.

To everyone else: I acknowlege that this post is not adding value but if you were one of the lucky 1/10000 you would understand that I have no choice.

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