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The code quality apparently was abysmal and full of dirty hacks due to a mix of “beginner energy” and “go fast & break things” Silicom Valley mindset. The issues with bun (leading to the big Anthropic hack) were subtly blamed on the Zig language, even though Zig is completely fine; Bun’s code (which already was full of bad generated slop at that point, as well as code by programmers who were treated badly -> more bad code) was just crap.

After Zig was blamed the Zig creator wrote a blogpost detailing all of it. Worth a read, certainly more human than the corposlop Anthropic announces.

It’s even more funny if you know the backstory of bun. It was basically the perfect example of how to not to do things before they burned a whole forrest to have Claude slop it into another language, based on a codebase that was measurably bad. Now nobody actually knows the whole codebase anymore.

Given the phenomenal garbage that are the other big vibecoded projects (like the “compiler that can compile Linux” - it can’t) using bun now is just like lottery.

Meaningful Indentation > Unnecessary visual clutter

I will die on this hill. Python is wonderfully readable as it saves on unnecessary characters because indentations as well as line breaks are (usually) part of the syntax. Something like C++ with all its :;{}<> is just painful to read, not to mention annoying to write on many non-US keyboard layouts such as german without modifications.

When vibecoders let the slopmachine set up a "My"SQL database and don’t check where it stores the API key.

Your word in the Linux communities’ hardliners ears. The consistent rejection of isolation concepts seen in Flatpak or Snap by some people go completely beyond me.

If this is a real headline then the author is either incompetent regarding code and the complexity of big projects or very competent in regards to marketing and making ragebait headlines. Either of the two.

I’d prefer any other format on the sole basis of “not maintained by <insert Corposcum>”.

You don’t bet in achieving a pipe dream in the near future when developing something (at least I hope you don’t). The actual AI devs are also rather humble about what can be realistically achieved in the near future if they’re allowed to speak openly, it’s the techbros and investors who’re blowing everything up so phenomenally that the only way for this bubble - which by now is big enough to crash the US economy on its own - to proceed is to achieve the literally impossible, which is General Artificial Intelligence within at least the next 2 to 3 years (they can only pump so much money into it). I haven’t heard a single developer or scientist saying this to even be remotely realistic.

This is more about economics than programming, AI experts and grifters just collect the money as long as the bubble persist. Also has to do with tech-solutionism and latestage capitalism. In the end the science of Machine Learning will prevail (although a lot of devs might need to find other specialisations; perhaps COBOL?), but this economical house of cards will fall apart. Let’s hope it will burry US-neolibertarianism and -fascism under it this time.

Just one more GPT bro, I swear it will bring us AGI bro, please bro please, just one more GPT…

lol

Unfortunately nothing that can be done about it unless someome creates an “illegal” kernel module which supports HDMI 2.1 despite the lack of license. That’s basically the only hope right now (and I’m all for it).

Because it sucks? 🙃

Like, seriously, Manjaro had so many problems already that were completely preventable, makes stupid mistakes, bloats itself up with nonsense and provides no stability improvement over Arch whatsoever (which is a bad thing). On the contrary, it apparently even introduces additional bugs.

I’m not surprised they accidentally DDoS’ed the AUR, given they also have a docker script that spins up every single time an image is downloaded to push a change to git to increment a counter. Every. Single. Time. A full docker container. From scratch.

I’d only ever recommend Manjaro to people I really don’t like.

How many “equal” symbols do we need to be absolutely sure?

Beginning your sentence with “I code in JS” really makes any follow-up statement sound sane in comparison.

The description in the first photo about int - steing comparison is incomplete though, right? Wasn’t there also a rule anout which one of then comes first (the second parameter gets converted?), and what happens if a string contains non-numeric values?

It’s all so confusing…

You expect those 250k lines to be comprehensible? In my experience they’ll be an utter clusterfuck.

You can’t fix the airplane if it turns out to be a boat with legs, 2 holes (worked around with 5 pumps) and 3.5 enormous ears tagged “wings”.

Rust: Borrow handler got mad at you for asking

(I’d assume)

And switch cases (called match cases) are there as well.

I use lambdas all the time to shovel GTK signal emitions from worker threads into GLib.idle_add in a single line, works as you’d expect.

Previous commenters probably didn’t look at Python in a really long time.

Parts of me want to argue that “experienced devs” can’t seriously still ask ChatGPT for syntax correction. Like, I do that with Codestral as I’m learning Python (despite the occasional errors it’s still so much better than abstract docs…), but that should just be a learning thing… or is it because nowadays a single codebase often consists of 5+ languages and devs are expected to constantly learn all the new “hot shit” which obviously won’t make anyone experts in one specific one like back when the there just weren’t as many?

No wonder there are some older developers who defend Lisp so passionately. Sounds like a dream to work with once you got the hang of it.