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Rimu@piefed.socialto
Programming@programming.dev•Zig creator calls Bun’s Claude Rust rewrite ‘unreviewed slop’English
0·6 days agoApparently Bun was always an especially bad example of how to use Zig.
From https://andrewkelley.me/post/my-thoughts-bun-rust-rewrite.html
The Zig team regularly checks in on our users’ projects. We read source code to find out how the language is affecting users, we test changes to see how problematic breakage might be, and we check for performance regressions.
We became increasingly horrified at the programming practices we saw in Bun’s codebase. Hacks on top of hacks. Abuse of assertions. Most of all, recklessly speeding past feature after feature with very little time taken for reflection and elimination of bugs and technical debt. Jarred was already writing slop well before he had access to LLMs. Now, it’s not our business to police what our users do, but you may have noticed people screaming in our faces about memory safety constantly. You can imagine how we might want to put some social distance between ourselves and a project whose irresponsible software engineering practices invite the exact kind of criticism that people are eager to level.
We made futile attempts to guide them towards better programming practices. There were a few exceptional heroes who did their very best in a dysfunctional company. You know who you are. But you can’t stop a rising tide.
By this time, we all felt at ZSF that Bun was a net liability, and this was before RoboBun became the #1 contributor.
Rimu@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•“Televised Nervous Breakdown”: CEO of Palantir Suffers a Bit of a Meltdown During Live InterviewEnglish
0·18 days agoHere’s the segment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI-0FKFfO54
He seemed pretty coherent to me. At times clearly thinking faster than his mouth can keep up but really no big deal.
Pretty interesting how he’s fully accepted that there will be “a wealth tax” as a result of a backlash against AI. And how the CEOs he knows are “livid” about how totally useless AI is even after they jumped in boots and all, lol



Yep me too.