Comment by LoganDark
2 days ago
I think it's hilarious how hopeful people were at the acquisition that Bun would be able to continue on mostly as it had been but then that all got completely thrown away and trashed.
(Hilarious in the way that's terribly sad, of course.)
It usually takes years for someone's values to be thrown out the window! How long was this one?
Give man a Claude subscription and he can work for a day, let Anthropic buy the man and he doesn’t need to work a day in his life anymore.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"
changing your employer tends to accelerate that if the new employer has different values.
I don't think the man had any values to begin with.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243990
How has it been trashed? Does the Bun software not work anymore?
They literally threw out every line of code that existed before and rewrote it in a completely different language, seemingly on a whim. That's how it was trashed, in the very literal sense that all of the existing project was tossed in the trash in favor of a completely brand new code base. That's a big deal even if you ignore the coding agent aspects.
The worst part is that they basically didn't review the new code at all other than making sure it passes tests. We have no idea what could be lurking in the codebase now, and it's even all completely un-idiomatic, Zig-ish Rust.
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But it's not a big deal, code is cheap. This is hand-wringing about nothing.
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>Does the Bun software not work anymore?
Nobody knows.
Spatting on community was a big deal in OSS circles.