logoalt Hacker News

pjmlptoday at 7:09 PM1 replyview on HN

Agreed, the language would be interesting during the 1990's, nowadays not so much.

The tools that the language offers to handle use after free is hardly any different from using Purify, Insure++ back in 2000.


Replies

defentoday at 7:29 PM

I find comments like this fascinating, because you're implicitly evaluating a counterfactual where Bun was built with Rust (or some other "interesting" language). Maybe Bun would be better if it were built in Rust. But maybe it would have been slower (either at runtime or development speed) and not gotten far enough along to be acquired by one of the hottest companies in the world. There's no way to know. Why did Anthropic choose Bun instead of Deno, if Deno is written in a better language?

show 2 replies