Comment by simonw

6 hours ago

I really like the bit where he transferred ownership of Ghostty to a non-profit, and is now building this new company on that as an open source dependency:

> We will build on libghostty exactly as it was designed to be used: as a public building block for terminal applications. Superlogical will consume the same MIT-licensed components available to everyone else, and we will continue to upstream shared terminal work so every libghostty consumer can benefit.

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tough  6 hours ago

Can't unsee the stark contrast with Anthropic/Bun's recent shenanigans over unreleased rust migrations hehe

  • fortuitous-frog  6 hours ago

    Bun and the Rust pre-release have continued to be open source; the pre-release isn’t exclusive to Claude Code but available to anyone to download and use. There hasn’t been any public motion to indicate they may close source anytime soon. This FUD is so easily fact-checkable that I’m genuinely confused at how it caught on

    • nvme0n1p1  5 hours ago

      > I’m genuinely confused at how it caught on

      Probably because they said AI rewrote it in 11 days, yet haven't cut a release almost 2 months later. If their AI finished it, where's the release?

      They ported enough of it to run a single app (Claude Code). Good job. But if I ported Linux to Rust and it was only capable of running a single app, should I be able say it was a complete port? We'd all agree that was misleading. It's the same with Bun.

      The marketing lies simply backfired.

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    • woah  5 hours ago

      They inflamed an online programming language fandom. It's kinda like if they dissed BTS

    • tough  5 hours ago

      Well i was mostly talking about the "handing over to a non-profit" control parts. Not the release.

      but since you said so, could you link me to the release / tag on github? I don't think they've put it out yet?

      Maybe they won't change licenses, but Bun now feels more like SQLite as in "source code available" kinda open source, than the "come build with us, community first" kind that i think used to be classified on at least for me mentally.

      No horse in this race, just pattern matching as we meatbags love to do.

      Idc about the downvoting i can take a bit of heat on my fake internet points

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