Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good • Tero Piirainen
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The last three months have not looked good for Bun. It started as one of the most impressive individual engineering projects I have seen, but has now turned into this weird AI-powered creature with continuous false promises and an increasingly frustrated community.

  • hikaru755@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    In case you’re not aware

    They literally mentioned anthropic by name, so I’m pretty sure they’re aware 😅

    And there’s also already uv, which is a package manager for Python, written in Rust, so clearly the Bun rewrite should be possible.

    Bun is a whole lot more than a package manager, though. It’s also a full JS/TS runtime, bundler and test runner. So I don’t think that’s a great comparison

    • trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      Well, Anthropic have previously used their near-infinite investor money to give out tokens to open-source projects as a publicity stunt. And it just seemed so impossible to me that they would revert when they’re owned by Anthropic, that it made me unsure, if they’re aware of this ownership… 😅

      And good point about Bun being more than just a package manager.
      uv is also more than a package manager. Pretty sure, it could also be referred to as a bundler and a test runner, and I’ve seen it used to manage the install of different Python runtime versions. But yeah, being a full language runtime by itself, that is the big one here.

      I mean, there’s also a near-infinite supply of toy programming languages being implemented in Rust, if the LLM needs something to ripoff, but yeah, a production codebase will be magnitudes more complex, of course.