Better in every way

They want us to believe Mythos was so bad it kept shipping segfaults for the last 6 months.

And also that it’s capable and trustworthy enough to rewrite the whole runtime in another language flawlessly such that no human needs to code review?

Idiocracy.

That explains the massive rise in segfaults since they got acquired.

It’s approaching being as buggy as claude code which I’ve had to stop using even though I have 6 months free of max because it just crashes and freezes all the time.

Yes he said multiple times including to me yesterday that humans won’t code review as a matter of practice going forward.

Wow, that's wild. Is that just bun, or is that the general practice at anthropic now?

Hi. Electrobun creator here.

I am building a new JS runtime called cottontail.

It’s just a prototype now but the goal is to have a huge standard library powered by native zig such that you don’t need npm.

So you’re right that npm is a disaster and I’m working on solving.

The video demos are wild, but also how many people are already shipping apps with Electrobun.

Hey HN, Electrobun creator here. Thanks for posting this.

We just hit v1 - stable which means I've locked down the architecture. If you run into any bugs or need specific apis that you miss from Electron or Tauri please open Github issues and I'll prioritize them. I shipped 50,000 lines of code changes stabilizing and polishing electrobun for v1 over the last month.

Here's a video demo of Colab (also open source) (a hybrid web browser + code editor + PTY terminal) that is built with Electrobun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWTCqGmE86w

Electrobun uses the system webview by default, but a lot of the hello worlds feature the bundleCEF option. Because Electrobun is architected to be webview agnostic when servo and ladybird are ready they should be drop-in alternatives.

Electrobun apps also auto generate a zstd self-extraction wrapper and patch files with every release, so your initial download will be much smaller than if you'd used zip and your updates will be as small as 14KB so you can ship as often as you like without you or your users paying the bandwidth tax.

Are the types up to date with the docs? For example, when using BrowserWindow I get typescript errors if trying to pass an object with the key "partition".

thank you for building electrobun!!

Electrobun is now v1 stable. Ship full cross platform desktop apps in a few MB, ship often with diff updates as small as 14KB.

Fun marketing experiment, but you basically implemented ralph wiggum in the cloud.

Claude code locally in a vm and/or with work trees will 1 shot far better without burning cloud infra cash.

I’d bet this ends up wasting more money and time than it’s worth in practice.

Are you kidding me? I heard there’s a whole entire planet of Mercury and it’s right next to the biggest fusion reactor in our solar system.

We just have to figure out how to nudge Mercury into the Sun… cheaply.