As a Chinese, I think we know from the first place that this is all about political and money. It's interesting to see lots of people "shocked" by this outcome.

Maybe same for anthropic, they can simply write agent using Rust/Go. Instead they decide to buy and develop a JavaScript runtime.

If anything this seems to be a huge victory for Zig, since Bun is mostly written in Zig.

That’s just what the Javascript ecosystem has been missing! A runtime built on an unstable pre-1.0 language to go with the npm dependency churn. It’s been way too long since I’ve had to waste a week debugging what turns out to be a compiler/interpreter bug.

(I’m half joking, that’s awesome for Zig!)

Rushing things to completion using unfinished code is the JavaScript way!

- a javascript developer

These are completely different. Agents (aside from the model inference) are not CPU bound. You gain much more by having a wider user base than whatever marginal CPU cycles you would gain in Rust/Go.

Video games are of course a different story.

My thinking is that they’re trying to capture that market for JavaScript before another AI company does. To put it bluntly they want to capture the revenue generated by writing JavaScript code, which is currently being captured by independent JavaScript developers. The reason for a JavaScript is that is the most ubiquitous language, and id guess there are more jobs available for JS/node than any other language. Of course, as a JavaScript developer, this may just be my paranoia. <sweats profusely>

Just search them on Taobao, you can get tons of these staff.

As a Chinese I'm amazed that this app is totally unknown in China but get popular in HN

Wait a moment, they can't use computer? I remember read some news about prison people become a programmer or something like that...

Federal versus state(s).

The Federal system is more-or-less standardized and many have access to many things either on campus or remotely.

The State system is a hodge-podge of nonsense and most States are ran like trash for money reasons.

Expanding on this: each state is often run by a mix of public and for-profit institutions and services by crooked corporations like GEO Group and CoreCivic, and so there are often incentives like campaign $upport for politicians to find ways to imprison as many people as possible. In Texas, the facilities are like 19th century penal colonies.

So each prison or prison system has its own rules.

But I can imagine a prison allowing people to learn computer skills while also having very limited access to computers. They could have a computer lab that has locked down computers and no Internet access and is accessed with supervision for use only for classes and class assignments.