Biggest WTF news I’ve read today. I’m not a web dev so this doesn’t affect me, but this is bizarre.
We get a closer first look at what’s around the corner for AI coding tools, and make Bun better for it
This incredibly popular tool is now going to merge with an AI company and shift gears to be turned into some forced AI hype machine. Yipee! Exactly what all the devs were hoping for! /s
For anyone wondering wtf Bun is, it’s a project championing JavaScript. It wants to replace node.js.
On a tangent, I recently switched from a cinnamon desktop (which uses TypeScript or some form of js) to KDE-plasma because I noticed that cinnamon occasionally couldn’t keep up with rapid mouse movements (and my machine is high end). KDE-plasma handles it fine and even has a “find my mouse” feature that turns doing the “draw fast circles to see if the mouse drifts all over the screen because the handler can’t keep up with the updates” into a game of “how big can I make the cursor”.
I wish the whole “let’s keep javascript as a thing” movement would just die out. Other languages aren’t hard to learn, why are so many people obsessed with sticking with js and shoehorning fixes for its massive flaws instead of just letting it die?
Not saying it should be used for everything, but it is a pretty decent language nowadays (lots of the annoying parts have been fixed in the last 15yrs). Although the main benefit imho is, that it is the closest thing we have to an interpreted language that runs everywhere.
Isn’t Python also widely supported these days?
Though I’ll always prefer compiled languages over interpreted and I think cross compiling is also in the best state it ever has been, though dependencies can complicate things still, as well as any inline assembly use.
Supported as in “you can install an interpreter on most machines”: yes
But for JS it’s already there. You can just write a program, upload it someone, send someone a link and it runs. And it’s even sandboxed.
(Although thanks to webassembly, that will be true for many more languages as well, so maybe my argument is void)