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The author shared their experience building the first version in a month: https://themackabu.dev/blog/js-in-one-month

And then the follow up few months later: https://themackabu.dev/blog/ant-part-two

I'm not sure what the economics of building a new runtime and ecosystem from scratch are but it seems we're already in a phase where individual developers are creating software which previously took a whole team. And its only getting started...



> The engine, Ant Silver, is hand-built.


It’s not hand-built. It’s hand prompted.


I don't like it.

There is no shame in saying it's generated, bun is now completely vibe code also.

Saying it's hand built when it's not is false advertising


Not specified what the hack hand prompted means anyways?


Writing code by your own hands is an esoteric hobby. We are past the slop era. This is coding now. If you're 1x, you're not a dev.

I would assume by now most of the code published on Github is hand-built with LLM prompts and armies of AI agents.


What is the definition of being an 1x dev?


This is very much still the slop era.


Okay, so would you say LuaJIT is slop, just because it is hand coded?


Is that impressive? If an LLM is just spewing out code which it has been trained on extensively then to me it's not that impressive at all. I want to see individual developers creating new software which previously took a whole team. Things not done previously. I am very pro AI btw, but the constant barrage of false hype is really tiresome.




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