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Not so locked in any more
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Not so locked in any more

This Mitchell Hashimoto quote about Bun migrating from Zig to Rust reminded me of a similar conversation I had at a conference last week. I was talking to someone who worked for a medium sized technology company with a pair of legacy/legendary iPhone and Android apps. They told me they had just completed a coding-agent driven rewrite of both apps to React Native. I asked why they chose that, given that coding agents presumably drive down the cost of maintaining separate iPhone and Android apps.…

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Quoting Mitchell Hashimoto
IA Programmation

Quoting Mitchell Hashimoto

[...] On the interesting side is how fungible programming languages are nowadays. Programming languages used to be LOCK IN, and they're increasingly not so. You think the Bun rewrite in Rust is good for Rust? Bun has shown they can be in probably any language they want in roughly a week or two. Rust is expendable. Its useful until its not then it can be thrown out. That's interesting! — Mitchell Hashimoto, on Bun porting from Zig to Rust Tags: zig, ai, mitchell-hashimoto, llms, rust,…

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Popular node-ipc npm Package Infected with Credential Stealer
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Popular node-ipc npm Package Infected with Credential Stealer

Socket’s threat feed has detected malicious activity in newly published versions of node-ipc, a long-running npm package previously associated with one of the most widely discussed supply chain incidents in the JavaScript ecosystem. The affected versions confirmed as malicious are: node-ipc@9.1.6 node-ipc@9.2.3 node-ipc@12.0.1 Socket’s AI scanner detected the newly published malicious versions within roughly three minutes of publication, classifying the activity as malware. Early analysis…

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