Anthropic is massively bigger than a studio, Zig is massively smaller than Unity, and it wasn’t a quiet switch, it was a huge publicity event. It’s more like the #1 movie of the year being “The Profound Joy of Finally Leaving Unity”. Sometimes things are big enough to warrant a response.

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phoghed an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It was a pull request and a blog post which HN et al. collectively foamed at the mouth about. You’re acting like Anthropic sunk millions into a marketing campaign.

	▲	ryan_n 38 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The entire country is watching companies like Anthropic, openAi, etc.. right now... A pull request and blog post is a big deal.
	▲	jraph an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		For what we know, probably around $200,000 to run the rewrite and rewiew it, + whatever was involved in writing the blog post and advertise it.
	▲	queenkjuul an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Well if the whole thing is a marketing ploy and it did cost them millions...

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Ygg2 33 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

People were for a few weeks commenting on why Jarred didn't write that Rust blog post.

Here are the comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251340

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241734

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240996

Now he published it; it's a hit piece. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.