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That's just globalisation. Wouldn't europeans be fools if they never used american research??? And vice versa?

ed: and also to the above point, those optics companies look frightfully european...

Should zionists leave new york because they don't like the mayor?

I don't want to log on to his stupid ragebait website. I hate him for entirely different reasons to the usability of a shit website. Problem?

"It broke out of containment and hacked computers on its own!!!"

Marketing.

The post sounds like an advertisement.

I'd estimate based on those it cost at least a million bucks.

We're never going to know how much it cost and how many hours of engineering time it took behind the scenes.

I believe this about as much as the claim that the Bun rewrite cost $165k

Says who?

Bun now has a rule for github actions to chastise robobun if it leaves a long comment: "If you need a paragraph-long comment to justify why the workaround is OK, the code is wrong — fix the code"

Jarred from Bun is in this comment section saying the rewrite isn't finished yet. I therefore don't consider it a failure or a success. I'll be keen to see how much the CI cost though since that's a part of the cost of the rewrite.

"Let them eat cake!"

Personally I think the cost does matter.

Yeah if you want you can check out my github page to see some tool failures. Nobody is hyping those up, though.

You've got my blessing. I think given how mistaken I am, it should be quite an engaging article.

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It isn't clear to me that the price is worth it.

Author here: Exactly.

I had a funny thought that Bun might add a release tag while I was still writing the article. In that case I'd still publish it, because the point is we still don't know the cost it took to get to a viable, wide, release. The $165k isn't the full story.

Please feel free to write an article that corrects my mistakes.

I link to Jarred's writeup on bun.com, where you'll note he mentions that its being used on Prisma and Claude Code.

I don't agree that using something in a very specific environment is the same as a wide release.

I trust readers will either know the backstory or read the articles I link to. Such is life if they don't.

Author here: I don't need or want another Bun release or an NPM release or anything like that. Like I very clearly say in the article I just got chatting with a peer about the Bun rewrite and I decided to take a look.

I'm consistently skeptical about new tech whether it is NoSQL or Blockchain or Serverless. Some of the things I'm skeptical about fail and some succeed.

I mention Anthropic dogfooding this in the article.

I don't think that's true. I think a fair chunk of them are places where Bun is handed a pointer by WebKit or something similar. I believe they write about this a little.

From the article:

> The goal of a postmortem is to draw meaningful conclusions to help you learn from your past successes and failures. Despite its grim-sounding name, a postmortem can be an extremely productive method of improving your development practices.

I thought it was a fairly common turn of phrase! https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-project-postmortem/

Ohhhhh for a world where that's peanuts for an open source project.

That's absolutely correct!

> I am none the wiser about how it's going.

You and me both friend!

More proof that it was written by a human!!!

Author here: I'm also not sure how much we can glean from any of that!!! I look forward to Anthropic or Bun releasing a retrospective after their next release that fully outlines the cost.