Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke
by diegoholiveira on Monday July 13, 2026 @08:12AM
(#48891498)
I remember that. It was the first time I heard about Scala.
I saw a lot of RoR companies/users thinking “should we do the same?” without even realizing that they do not have the same twitter scalability problems.
Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke
by busterarm on Monday July 13, 2026 @08:32AM
(#48891734)
It didn't even end there at Twitter.
The same engineer at Twitter decided early on that no distributed messaging technology was good enough for Twitter, so they wrote their own. It fell over and they threw it away and wrote their own again. It fell over and they threw it away and now they use mainstream tools.
Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke
by mi_lk on Monday July 13, 2026 @08:00AM
(#48891364)
Consequently, certain kind of people, commonly seen in big-cos, will cite Bun's post for some nonsense AI rewrite as a justification in it itself
Re:Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke
by JetSetIlly on Monday July 13, 2026 @11:54AM
(#48894596)
Similar to Discord's migration from Go to Rust. The measurements and reasons they gave were true but even by the time of the migration, Go had already moved on and improved. They were using an old version of Go.
Rust might be the right choice for Discord, I've no idea about that, but the problem is that the blog post lives on and influences people to this day.
I still remember the Twitter dev blog where they abandoned Ruby/Rails and the damage that did. It turned out Twitter was doing a lot of stupid things and there was a mismatch of tools and their goals. They loudly blamed the tools and people ate it up because Twitter was big, visible and adored at the time. Their conclusions bypassed most people’s ability to reason.
Anthropic/Bun are big, visible and adored…