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Good suggestion, I will :)

Has all of this drama turned anyone else a bit sour on bun?

I have a long running side project I migrated to bun, and I'm starting to regret it. I don't want to build on top of this much churn.

Though I don't brand my site as indie web, my own website is a bit like this - I have a link to my consulting site and a headshot on there.

Why is that so bad? My professional life is a part of who I am. One could call me an IndieWorker, in that I'm self employed....

Right, there's a lot of schadenfreude about SA not being so popular and serves them right for being mean when I asked them a question... but it was also no doubt a gold mine of AI training data. Stands to reason this may be an agentic AI golding age, as future models just eating their own data.

Counter Argument - with Zig it's perfectly viable to make programs using just the standard library. You have json serde, zon (zig object notation) serde, system functions (ie libc/rustix equivalent), random number generators... all without a single dependency.

10 years ago we had a series of studies suggesting that code ownership was beneficial. And in 10 years I feel very little has changed, and IME we still still lack even a weak code ownership model in teams.

What has been your experience?

I enjoy Rust, I've taught a course on it, and I happily use it daily for my work at Zed. Despite what Internet comments might have us believe, it's extremely normal for one language to be the best fit for one project, while a different language turns out to be the best fit for a different project. One size does not actually fit all!

Amen. I like both Zig and Rust, and if I praise/criticise one of them, people act like I'm "switching", as if they were two exclusionary religions (though I think some people may indeed view them that way).

The stuff on memory safety written in the article is well worth reading, because in a lot of programmer discourse it's talked of as if it's some binary, that Rust Is Memory Safe, and Zig Is Not Memory safe. That's simply not the case.

There's a few runtimes for IO bound work loads; monoio from bytedance comes to mind.

I've been thinking similar thoughts recently, in that I am not sure that a function call is the best way to model asynchronicity. Io-uring in particular feels much more suited to a req/res type model, which has the benefit that you can make a single threaded state machine the core of your app - very pleasant to test and reason about.

I'd draw the analogy to RPC; it's a leaky abstraction because HTTP is fundamentally a different thing than a function call. I'd argue that event loops are a different thing as well.

But on the same page

On iOS 16.4 and later, PWAs can be installed from the Share menu in Safari, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Orion.

So you can't have an install prompt, but it's still pretty easy. If people can learn hamburger menus they can learn this.

My PWA skills are rusty, but IIRC it's one click on Android to install web page as an "app" (ie it appears on the home screen like anything else), and it was about 3 in Safari - perhaps a onerous for B2C, but surely not for internal users.

So you can easily make an "App" for normies, from a web page.

Agreed. The outrage around what Andrew said was performative and melodramatic. I remember the "no work-life balance if you work here" thing, and then I remember Bun's CEO last year complaining he might not be able to get H1Bs anymore...

And this whole thing reeked of a publicity stunt. Show people you can use $$$ of tokens to vibe code a refactor. The headline is how great anthropic - bun's owner - is.

Based and Vanilla JS pilled.

I know posts like this get a lot of whinging, but you are 100% right. The browser is in itself a platform; frameworks are not like some kind of hyper abstracted Web Scrinting Language for people too important to deal with "raw" CSS/DOM. They're a an awkward, alternate abstraction, slow as molasses, and they leak like a sieve.

Democracy is government of the uninformed, by the uninformed, for the uninformed.

Populism is inherent in the whole set up and always has been.

And by democracy they mean... people agreeing with each other and voting for the correct parties:

broadband reduced civic participation, eroded social trust, and boosted voting for extreme-right and populist parties in Italy and Germany.

Is the "extreme-right" party in Germany still chaired by a brown lesbian woman?

He called a mentally ill man who died a tragic death "a circus freak".

It's unreasonable to post an article like that then ask us to speak politely about him.

I just simply don't think it's that good.

"We"? I haven't even been to India let alone cut down trees there.

Because we have spent a lot of time and money using AI to generate code and have been unimpressed with the results.

As for why they got accepted so quickly 1) the industry's long running desperation to deskill computer programming 2) the addictive psychology baked into LLMs "That's an elegant solution! Shall I ... ?"

Exactly.

Questiom for TUI writers - in 2026 is there any terminal emulator that doesn't understand ecma 48 control codes?

You could break into a sprint when rage baited.

I managed to get myself to the point where I could do two slow, deep, controlled pushups in one session.

Hence I have genuinely never even noticed, cared, or paid attention to how much a laptop weighs.

The differenxe between a "heavy" and "light" laptop is about 250 grams, or the weight of a single apple.

If you can hike all day there is no way you are weak enough for this to even register.

Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but is the loudness of your keyboard really a big deal in office environments?

Like I get if where you work is as quiet as a library, but in most places people are on voice calls, talking to each other over your head, etc. Any one complaining about clicky keys in that kind of environment can get stuffed as far as I am concerned.

I'm a bit of a clicky switch enthusiast. I use gateron melodics, which have a click leaf, meaning the click sound directly corresponds to actuation, unlike most modern clickies.

So I am very curious about beam springs. I doubt I would ever use one every day (I am pretty set on split ortholinears that sit low on the desk with short keycaps) but would love to try one.

They are compromised by Israel enough to not come out strongly against it, but not enough that I think they would have gone ahead with it - you need Epstein level blackmail for that.

I put this down to incompetence too. I know this is HN which mostly stakes it's claim on one side of the "culture war", but that is not where I am coming from - incompetence is incompetence, and we see that through the 2024 administration. (And I would argue - probably without much support here - a lot more incompetent than the 2016 administration which was unique in not actually starting new wars).

The standard take, including my own from last year, is that these tools amplify senior developers because senior developers have judgment.

My take is much less charitable. I think a lot of senior devs are lonely and enjoy talking to chatbots all day. Saying it amplifies their productivity is a justification.

A few comments here suggest rsync is undergoing some "churn" which tbh is highly undesirable for a command line utility. Might switch over.

As an aside I really love the stuff openBSD puts out. If they ever succeed in making a modern journalling filesystem I will probably switch over.