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Anthropic acquires Bun

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Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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post #106

it boils down to - we didn't have full conviction that over the long run we will prove superior to node.js, however a.i company burning a lot of cash, has invested in us by basing their toolchain on us - so they have no option to acquire-hire us.

quite the uncharitable take.

On the opposite spectrum it's just that Claude and Bun are great technologies that joined forces.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

#642

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Java can run anywhere too

It’s relevant enough that I feel I can roll out this bash.org classic… Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders EDIT: someone has (much to my joy) made an archive of bash.org so here is a link[1], but I must say I’m quite jealous of today’s potential 1/10,000[2] who will discover bash.org from my comment! [1] https://bash-org-archive.co…

That's hilarious. My comment is mostly a joke, but also trying to say that "runs everywhere" isn't that impressive anymore.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

#643
post #493

Genuine question: why js? Why not something like c#: native, fast, crossplatform, strongly-typed, great tooling, supports both scripting (ie single file-based) and compiled to a binary with no dependency whatsoever (nativeAOT), great errors and error stacks, list goes on. All great for AI to recover during its iterations of generating something useful. Genuinely perplexed.

Atwood’s Law

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

#644

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Java can run anywhere too

It’s relevant enough that I feel I can roll out this bash.org classic… Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders EDIT: someone has (much to my joy) made an archive of bash.org so here is a link[1], but I must say I’m quite jealous of today’s potential 1/10,000[2] who will discover bash.org from my comment! [1] https://bash-org-archive.co…

wait - how do you search the quotes??

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

#645
post #520
post #395

A lot of people seem confused about this acquisition because they think of Bun as a node.js compatible bundler / runtime and just compare it to Deno / npm. But I think its a really smart move if you think of where Bun has been pushing into lately which is a kind of cloud-native self contained runtime (S3 API, SQL, streaming, etc). For an agent like Claude Code this trajectory is really interesting as you are creating…

Yea - if you want a paranoidly-sandboxed, instant-start, high-concurrency environment, not just on beefy servers but on resource-constrained/client devices as well, you need experts in V8 integration shenanigans. Cloudflare Workers had Kenton Varda, who had been looking at lightweight serverless architecture at Sandstorm years ago. Anthropic needs this too, for all the reasons above. Makes all the sense in the world.

you left out the best part...what happened to Kenton? He looked at lightweight serverless architecture..and then what?

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

#646
post #77

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

Hard to say it makes no sense when you don't know how much they were acquired for. I would guess it is a trivial amount relative to Anthropic's war chest.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

#647

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Java can run anywhere too

Not in the browser, and no – webassembly doesn't count, otherwise you can say the same about Go and others.

java did run in the browser once.... it was embedded directly on the browser there was also nsapi

you could also run java with js if you are brave enough https://kreijstal.github.io/java-tools/

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

#648
post #361

I work on Bun. Happy to answer any questions

Thanks, Jarred. Seeing what you built with Bun has been a real inspiration, the way one focused engineer can shift an entire ecosystem. It pushed me back into caring about the lower-level side of things again, and I’m grateful for that spark. Congrats on the acquisition, and excited to see what’s next

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

#650

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s relevant enough that I feel I can roll out this bash.org classic… Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders EDIT: someone has (much to my joy) made an archive of bash.org so here is a link[1], but I must say I’m quite jealous of today’s potential 1/10,000[2] who will discover bash.org from my comment! [1] https://bash-org-archive.co…

wait - how do you search the quotes??

I don’t think there is a search function, I got the exact wording from a web search (I think “bash Java anal”, arguably a dangerous search!) and then after submitting I wondered if there is an archive of the quotes.
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