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Prominent Haskell defector pilloried by anti-AI purists

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By Joab Jackson Verified
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A prominent Haskell-based software platform is shifting new development to Python, with its founder arguing that Haskell's tooling and ecosystem have been slow to adapt to AI-assisted development. “Haskell is in real danger,” warned Scarf founder Avi Press, in a post entitled “After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell.” REG AD “AI is here to stay.
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Zig creator calls Bun's Claude Rust rewrite 'unreviewed slop'

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By Joab Jackson Verified
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AI/ML An AI rewrite of a popular Anthropic-owned JavaScript runtime and toolchain has sparked praise for the speed of its execution, but also criticism of the coding practices behind the project itself. Last week, Bun creator Jarred Sumner announced that he ported Bun from the Zig programming language to Rust in only 11 days, using a fleet of Claude agents running in parallel.
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HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST

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By Joab Jackson Verified
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DevOps "Idempotent" may be jargon, but the term performs an important job in HTTP as a hall pass that gives reverse proxies and gateways the go-ahead to cache complex query responses and automatically retry failed requests. HTTP has long allowed automatic retries for idempotent methods, but complex queries are often sent using POST, which intermediaries cannot safely assume is retryable. Developers have worked around that limitation for decades.
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