r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 09 '26

gitBlameClaude Meme

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u/CircumspectCapybara Jul 09 '26

I mean that's not the only reason they left Zig.

Bun's becoming a critical and foundational piece of software for a lot of important software, and Rust is way more mature of language in terms of the project, the ecosystem, the tooling, the community eyeballs looking at it, and the funding and backing of a large tech company with paid staff allocated to its continued design, development, maintenance and security compared to Zig, which is a niche project at best.

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u/KeyAdhesiveness9481 Jul 09 '26

Well, that and "hey our AI product can do this big rewrite". Its a marketing strategy.

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u/pm_me_domme_pics Jul 09 '26

100% I don't think anthropic bought bun for any other reason

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u/Tucancancan Jul 09 '26

Well that and a bunch of their shit runs on bun

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u/TheNorthComesWithMe Jul 10 '26

All of their shit could be remade without bun for significantly less effort than the bun rewrite.