I'm really out the loop here so maybe you can help answer me a question - why is HN unhappy about this rewrite? why are people writing here almost as if they feel betrayed by Bun being rewritten from Zig into Rust?
I genuinely don't get it. I've been following this Bun stuff a bit but I don't understand where the HN sentiment is coming from.
I mean this is just fingers-in-your-ears "LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!" stuff.
I still have a job so AI hasn't taken that yet. But the suggestion it's "no closer" is ridiculous. At least in my life/career/office this last 12 months seems to have been a real inflection point in how AI is being used for software development.
I don't completely disagree with what you are saying -- but there's no way you produce and review 20k lines a day. That part is clearly false. Even if Claude generated it in 10 seconds and it needed no changes you probably still couldn't review that much sensibly.
I used Claude a lot on a recent project where it probably wrote 15-20k lines in a month, and it was overall excellent.
I pay people globally through HSBC all the time. Works instantly.
I never understand this argument anyway. If you can't send funds instantly that isn't because the currently itself can't be transferred instantly - it's because for whatever reason you don't have access to a provider that will provide that service. That's a separate problem and can be solved without having to build an entirely new currency / financial system.
But maybe the simplest answer is that most people do use the tools daily now and consider them essential...?
As much as HN would hate to think that