I don't get it. Why would Anthropic need to own a JS runtime?
Anthropic acquires Bun
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Re: Anthropic acquires Bun
#32Congrats... > Long-term stability. a home and resources so people can safely bet their stack on Bun. Isn't it the opposite? Now we've tied Bun to "AI" and if the AI bubble or hype or whatever bursts or dies down it'd impact Bun. > We had over 4 years of runway to figure out monetization. We didn't have to join Anthropic. There's honestly a higher chance of Bun sticking out that runway than the current AI hype still b…
Yeah that’s the main part that puzzled me, super happy for the team that they got a successful exit, but I wouldn’t really consider Anthropic’s situation to be stable…
Re: Anthropic acquires Bun
#33What matters: it's staying open source and MIT licensed. I sincerely hope it stays that way. Congrats to the Bun team on making a great tool and getting the recognition they deserve. > Being part of Anthropic gives Bun: Long-term stability. Let's see. I don't want to always be the downer but the AI industry is in a state of rapid flux with some very strong economic headwinds. I wouldn't confidently say that hitching…
Nothing gives you long term stability in tech. You have to constantly work at staying stable, and it isn't always up to anything the company is in control of, no matter what ownership they have.
Re: Anthropic acquires Bun
#34I don't really see how Bun fits as an acquisition for an AI company. This seems more like "we have tons of capital and we want to buy something great" than "Bun is essential to our core business model".
Looks like they are acquiring the team rather than the product
No, they're clearly acquiring the technology. They're betting Claude Code on Bun, they have an invested interest in the health of Bun.
Re: Anthropic acquires Bun
#35As someone who have been using Deno for the last few years, is there anything that Bun does better? Bun seems to use a different runtime (JSC) which is less tested than V8, which makes me assume it might perform worse in real-world tasks (maybe not anymore?). The last time I checked Bun's source code, it was... quite messy and spaghetti-like, plus Zig doesn't really offer many safety features, so it's not that hard to write incorrect code. Zig does force some safety with ReleaseSafe IIRC, but it's still not the same as even modern C++, let alone Rust.
I'll admit I'm somewhat biased against Bun, but I'm honestly interested in knowing why people prefer Bun over Deno.
Re: Anthropic acquires Bun
#36Is Claude Code the first CLI tool to have a $1BN ARR?
This graph from the SemiAnalysis blog suggests that GitHub Copilot reached it earlier this year: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BGEe!,f_auto,q_auto:...
Re: Anthropic acquires Bun
#37Bun has completely changed my outlook on the JS ecosystem. Prior to Bun, there was little focus on performance. Now the entire space rallies around it.
Congrats to Jarred and the team!
Re: Anthropic acquires Bun
#38I don't get it. Why would Anthropic need to own a JS runtime?
Because they have a product that makes $1bn+ a year that depends on having a good, stable, cross-platform JS runtime.
Re: Anthropic acquires Bun
#39Hope nobody buys Astral or Python is f*cked.
Then it would probably be back to Poetry. Or some other newcomer, or maybe a fork of uv.
Re: Anthropic acquires Bun
#40I don't really see how Bun fits as an acquisition for an AI company. This seems more like "we have tons of capital and we want to buy something great" than "Bun is essential to our core business model".
If Anthropic wants to own code development in the future, owning the full platform (including the runtime) makes sense.
Programming languages all are a balance between performance/etc and making it easy for a human to interact with. This balance is going to shit as AI writes more code (and I assume Anthropic wants a future where humans might not even see the code, but rather an abstraction of it... after all, all code we look at is an abstraction on some level).