the author wrote a whole blog post asking how the bun rewrite is going and the answer from the thread is: nobody knows, including the author
"Nobody knows" is not a neutral sign however, Anthropic should be able to provide that visibility
How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
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Re: How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
#92I did suspect that the triumphalist pronouncements, and even the seemingly honest and forthright deep dive, were a little premature. This is a key problem with LLM exuberance: it's very tempting to trade on decades of experience in software using LLMs, because one is tired of typing and manual figuring-out, it seems to work if you're competent, and the payoff is essentially immediate. The real bill comes in the mail…
>because one is tired of typing
I consider typing to be secondary to software engineering, but I do concede that for those cases that typing really is the bottleneck, LLMs can certainly be of value.
Those cases are rare, though.
Re: How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
#93Maybe it would have made more sense for Anthropic to rewrite Claude Code in rust, and cut out the middle man (bun)?
Nope, they want shared artifact(s) between web and desktop (not sure what do they have in mobile apps) clients (Chat/Cowork/Code/CC-cli), so TS is the way to go. It’s a reasonable choice made by engineers.
Re: How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
#94> _"...Canny..."_ What a time to be alive
Still have no idea what that means…
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/canny
It means shrewd.
E.g. we should keep our wits about us when someone is making big hyperbolic claims about LLM that they directly benefit from, because maybe they have a motive to mislead either themselves, or us
Re: How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Claude Code most likely only uses a tiny fraction of Bun/Node features, so Claude Code switching to the Rust rewrite doesn't mean all that much.
Look, I understand being skeptical of the whole process; the discourse about this has been extremely tiring. But at some point if “moving one of the biggest actively maintained and used codebases to it without anyone noticing” is dismissed as “it doesn’t mean all that much”, then we’ve lost the plot a little bit somewhere.
It's the equivalent of porting Unreal Engine 5 to another language and then using it exclusively to run a 2D Tetris clone. Let's wait for the next Bun release when more real-world code is hammering it before declaring victory.
(also, fwiw, a manual rewrite would be under the same scrunity and suffer from the same skepticism, at least when obviously rushed).
Re: How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
#96I really do not understand how software developer think anymore. Using a LLM to translate a project in a short time, is by itself incredible. Just like one-shot whatever office clone. But what makes software is not the fast creation of a "product" but that actual development of its features. Figuring out how everything needs to work together, fixing the bugs, and the o so boring UI work. I have used LLMs to create st…
The more technical you get, the more subsitutable you become - or at least, people think of it in that way, because the whole idea is "It's not me, or the people, it's the raw technical prowess that earns its keep in this place".
But it seems like we're finally starting to accept that "accidentals" like network effects, ownership, accountability, etc. are important. Of course, that's why many of us fled to technical corners in the first place - because the "accidentals" become tied up with things like nepotism, unfair and arbitrary judges from random humans who don't understand your merit, the need for bullshitting more than real technical value. Supposedly, anyways.
Re: How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
#97> we’re approaching $800k in money spent on this rewrite.
That’s peanuts, if not the shells of the peanuts, for a project and company of this magnitude
Re: How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
#98> we’re approaching $800k in money spent on this rewrite. That’s peanuts, if not the shells of the peanuts, for a project and company of this magnitude
How does that help 99.9% of all other companies though?
Re: How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
#99I'm gonna say it bluntly: I don't care about bun, never cared about bun and think nodejs is sufficient. The drama surrounding zig and rust still leaves me with a bad taste because I also don't like how nonsensical topics like that influence what we do and what we (have to) care about on a day to day basis. That is just my opinion!
Mechanisms of beliefs, sense of identity and pride are behind of majority of projects including opensource. These are the same mechanisms which produce what you call "drama".
We can't have commited and involved people working on opensource stuff and simultaneously avoid drama when their sence of identity/beliefs/pride is devalued.
Re: How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Perhaps all this activity is paying down some of that debt. Perhaps. But were that the case, one would think they'd be quite eager to say so.
Maybe they will! Are you expecting them to live-tweet their work or something?
Based on the way they live-tweeted (as it were) their rewrite and their other publicity stunts? Yes, actually.