Anthropic acquires Bun • Hacker News Board

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by giancarlostoro » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 6:38 PM UTC

bigyabai wrote: post #79

singularity2001 wrote: post #53

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"the full platform" there are more languages than ts though? Acquisition of Apple Swift division incoming?

Why acquire Swift when you can write iOS apps in Typescript instead?

Which would use something like Bun ;)

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by baq » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 6:38 PM UTC

zelphirkalt wrote: post #39

wiseowise wrote: post #19

Hope 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.

If you froze uv today it’ll take years for anything to get to a state where the switch would be worth it.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by altmanaltman » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 6:38 PM UTC

simonw wrote: post #44

jedixit wrote: post #36

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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:...

"GitHub Copilot" encompasses so many different products now that it's hard to see it as a CLI tool.

It doesn't make a lot of sense that they'll compare Microsoft 365 Copilot with Claude Code, though? Like it is a legit CLI tool but we should ignore it because it shares the name with something else?

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by suralind » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 6:38 PM UTC

Good luck, always worried about stuff like that because it happened so many times and the product got worse eventually. At the same time, ai understand how much effort went into building something like Bun and people need to fund their life's somehow, so there's that.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by beanjuiceII » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 6:38 PM UTC

anthropic wont win, and will just get bought out by an ibm or oracle in the end...time to migrate from bun now

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by focusgroup0 » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 6:39 PM UTC

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Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by baq » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 6:39 PM UTC

mhitza wrote: post #77

This acquisition makes no sense. Investors must be happy because Bun never had to find out how to become profitable.

It’s enough Anthropic finds it profitable to run Claude Code on it.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by Octoth0rpe » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 6:39 PM UTC

stonogo wrote: post #62

LunaSea wrote: post #46

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Why would they want to bet on nascent technology whereas Node.js bas existed for a god 15 years?

Because Microsoft already owns that.

Are you referring to node? MS doesn't own that. It's maintained by Joyent, who in turn is owned by Samsung.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by polskibus » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 6:40 PM UTC

Wouldn’t it make more sense to write the same functionality using a more performant, no-gc language? Aren’t competitors praised for their CLIs being faster for that reason?

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 02, 2025, 6:40 PM UTC

singularity2001 wrote: post #53

gkoberger wrote: post #40

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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 cod…

"the full platform" there are more languages than ts though? Acquisition of Apple Swift division incoming?

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