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1. dts+0D[view] [source] 2025-12-02 20:52:05
>>ryanvo+(OP)
A lot of people seem confused about this acquisition because they think of Bun as a node.js compatible bundler / runtime and just compare it to Deno / npm. But I think its a really smart move if you think of where Bun has been pushing into lately which is a kind of cloud-native self contained runtime (S3 API, SQL, streaming, etc). For an agent like Claude Code this trajectory is really interesting as you are creating a runtime where your agent can work inside of cloud services as fluently as it currently does with a local filesystem. Claude will be able to leverage these capabilities to extend its reach across the cloud and add more value in enterprise use cases
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2. hoppp+hP[view] [source] 2025-12-02 21:55:18
>>dts+0D
It's fine but why is Js a good language for agents? I mean sure its faster than python but wouldn't something that compiles to native be much better?
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3. AstroB+xQ[view] [source] 2025-12-02 22:00:31
>>hoppp+hP
It's widespread and good enough. The language just doesn't matter that much in most cases
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4. moron4+mY[view] [source] 2025-12-02 22:47:44
>>AstroB+xQ
This is one of those, "in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is" issues.

In their, quality software can be written in any programming language.

In practice, folks who use Python or JavaScript as their application programming language start from a position of just not carrying very much about correctness or performance. Folks who use languages like Java or C#, do. And you can see the downstream effects of this in the difference in the production-grade developer experience and the quality of packages on offer in PIP and NPM versus Maven and NuGet.

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5. AstroB+l51[view] [source] 2025-12-02 23:39:24
>>moron4+mY
That's not a fair comparison. In your example, you're talking about the average of developers in a language. In this situation, it's specific developers choosing between languages. Having the developers you already have choose language A or B makes no difference to their code quality (assuming they're proficient with both)
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