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Anthropic acquires Bun

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Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by krig »

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!

> Prior to Bun, there was little focus on performance.

This is just completely insane. We went through more than a decade of performance competition in the JS VM space, and the _only_ justification that Google had for creating V8 was performance.

> The V8 engine was first introduced by Google in 2008, coinciding with the launch of the Google Chrome web browser. At the time, web applications were becoming increasingly complex, and there was a growing need for a faster, more efficient JavaScript engine. Google recognized this need and set out to create an engine that could significantly improve JavaScript performance.

I guess this is the time we live in. Vibe-coded projects get bought by vibe-coded companies and are congratulated in vibe-coded comments.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by trollbridge »

wiseowise wrote: post #19

Hope nobody buys Astral or Python is f*cked.

#1, uv is open-source and it could easily be forked and kept up to date.

#2, if you don't like uv, you can switch to something else.

uv probably has the least moat around it of anything. Truly a meritocracy: people use it because it's good, not because they're stuck with it.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by noboostforyou »

prathamtharwani wrote: post #165
adpirz wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It's doing that for me as well (desktop Safari).

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by the_mitsuhiko »

pzo wrote: post #120
simonw wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because they have a product that makes $1bn+ a year that depends on having a good, stable, cross-platform JS runtime.

Ok but node is even more stable and mature - compare node api parity in bun and also issue of bun vs node

But they are not using node any more?

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by pjmlp »

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…

Agreed, the language would be interesting during the 1990's, nowadays not so much.

The tools that the language offers to handle use after free is hardly any different from using Purify, Insure++ back in 2000.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by silasdavis »

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…

Stopped following Deno while they were rejecting the need for a package management solution. Used Bun instead.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by bopbopbop7 »

smcleod wrote: post #170
johnfn wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AI writes about 90% of my code.

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

Weird, AI writes terrible code for me that would never pass a code review. I guess people have different standards for good code.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by simonw »

tyingq wrote: post #176
simonw wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anthropic may be losing money, but a company with $7bn revenue run rate ( https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-dario-amodei-americ... ) is a whole lot healthier than a company with a revenue of 0.

If I had the cash, I could sell dollar bills for 50 cents and do a $7b run rate :)

If that was genuinely happening here - Anthropic were selling inference for less than the power and data center costs needed to serve those tokens - it would indeed be a very bad sign for their health.

I don't think they're doing that.

Estimates I've seen have their inference margin at ~60% - there's one from Morgan Stanley in this article, for example: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-anthropic-billions-cl...

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