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Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by satvikpendem »

TheFlyingFish wrote: post #72
Tiberium wrote: post #35

As 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 t…

I haven't used Deno, but I do use Bun purely as a replacement for npm. It does the hard-linking thing that seems to be increasingly common for package managers these days (i.e. it populates your local node_modules with a bunch of hard links to its systemwide cache), which makes it vastly quicker and more disk-efficient than npm for most usage. Even with a cold cache, `bun install` with a large-ish dependency graph is…

Deno does all that. Hell, yarn does too, or pnpm as the sibling mentioned.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by CSSer »

epiccoleman wrote: post #136
CSSer wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know for sure, but it's definitely the first tool of that value to have a persistent strobing (scroll position) bug so bad that passersby ask me if I'm okay when they see it.

Man, I had never even put words to that problem but you are right that it is beyond annoying. It seems to me like it worsens the longer the Claude instance has run - I don't seem to see it early in the session.

Yeah, issues have been open on GitHub for months. I've tried shortening my scrollback history and using other emulators but it doesn't seem to make a difference. It's pretty frustrating for a paid tool.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by threetonesun »

ximeng wrote: post #104

I use bun in a project but Claude Code always uses node to run throwaway scripts. Maybe they can persuade it to use bun as part of this acquisition?

Oddly I saw it try to use bun the other day, and was confused because everything in the project is in node.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by prathamtharwani »

adpirz wrote: post #146
Simran-B wrote: post #114

Classic - brand new blog post: > We’re hiring engineers. Careers page: > Sorry, no job openings at the moment.

It's the Anthropic careers page that you're likely looking for now: https://www.anthropic.com/jobs?team=4050633008

Is it just me or does this page keep jumping back to the top when I try to scroll?

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by Tiberium »

gr4vityWall wrote: post #152
Tiberium wrote: post #35

As 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 t…

> I'll admit I'm somewhat biased against Bun? Why? Genuine question, sorry if it was said/implied in your original message and I missed it.

Good question, hard to say, but I think it's mainly because of Zig. At its core Zig is marketed as a competitor to C, not C++/Rust/etc, which makes me think it's harder to write working code that won't leak or crash than in other languages. Zig embraces manual memory management as well.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by satvikpendem »

kylecarbs wrote: post #37

Bun 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!

That's because it's not written in JS at all but a compiled systems language, no wonder it's gonna be fast.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by skybrian »

Tiberium wrote: post #35

As 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 t…

I’ve been using Deno too. Although npm support has improved and it’s fine for me, I think Deno has more of a “rewrite the world” philosophy. For example, they created their own package registry [1] and their own web framework [2]. Bun seems much more focused on preexisting JavaScript projects.

[1] https://jsr.io/ [2] https://fresh.deno.dev/

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by frumplestlatz »

dboon wrote: post #141
ctoth wrote: post #50

This decision is honestly very confusing to me as a constant user of Claude Code (I have 3 of them open at the moment.) So many of the issues with it seem to be because ... they wrote the damn thing in JavaScript? Claude is pretty good at a constrained task with tests -- couldn't you just port it to a different language? With Claude? And then just ... the huge claude.json which gets written on every message, like ...…

Ink (and modern alternatives) probably are the best TUI toolkit. If you want to write a UI that's genuinely good, you need e.g. HTML, or some way to express divs and flex box. There isn't really another way to build professional grade UIs; I love immediate mode UI for games, but the breadth of features handled by the browser UI ecosystem is astonishing. It is a genuinely hard problem. And if you're expressing hierarc…

The idea that you need or want HTML or CSS to write a TUI is missing the entire point of what made TUIs great in the first place. They were great precisely because they were clean, fast, simple, focused -- and didn’t require an entire web stack to draw colored boxes.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by smcleod »

johnfn wrote: post #140
mokarma wrote: post #122

Quote from the CEO of Anthropic in March 2025: "I think we'll be there in three to six months where AI is writing 90% of the code and then in 12 months we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code"

AI writes about 90% of my code.

Probably about 95% of mine now. Much better than I could for the most part.
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