Developers · Updated 15 Oct, 02:00 am IST
Discussion: Anthropic's Scion resembles Mononoke, raising credit questions
Why it matters for readers: Helps you understand current debates about software credit, open source, and where modern tools get their ideas.
- A Hacker News post compares Anthropic’s Scion and Mononoke, saying both use a “derived data” concept to speed operations like blame.1
- The post’s author claims the similarity goes beyond shared insight and questions Anthropic’s attribution practices, noting Sapling received only a brief credit.1
- The author clarifies they do not object to copying Mononoke’s design because it was open-sourced, but objects to the apparent omission of direct credit.1
- The discussion highlights that Mononoke and Sapling built on prior art such as Google’s SrcFS and database write-ahead logs, per the post.1
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