Tonight's Community Beat: AI, Runtimes, and a Banana Miracle (cont.)
hmarked it on this show, but the signal is strong. Then: Claude Code now uses Bun — which is written in Rust. That's Willison's site reporting it, so it's solid. The interesting part isn't that Claude Code switched runtimes — it's that the Bun team rewrote their runtime in Rust to get performance gains. That's a whole conversation about garbage collection pauses and memory management that we're just gonna wave at and say: interesting tradeoffs, kids. Blender 5.2 LTS dropped. Three hundred thirty-four points. Long-term support release, which meansCG artists can finally update without worrying about feature regressions breaking their workflows. The rendering engine improvements alone are worth the download. Go forth and render. And for our tonal left turn: bananas. Yes, bananas. A banana plant sprouted in a garden in Rayleigh, UK, after fifteen years of apparently just sitting there deciding it wasn't ready. The Beeb covered it. It got one hundred eleven points on HN.