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Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by moron4hire »

AstroBen wrote: post #598
moron4hire wrote: post #555

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is one of those, "in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is" issues. In their, quality software can be written in any programming language. In practice, folks who use Python or JavaScript as their application programming language start from a position of just not carrying very much about correctness or performance. Folks who use languages like Java or C#, do. And you can…

That's not a fair comparison. In your example, you're talking about the average of developers in a language. In this situation, it's specific developers choosing between languages. Having the developers you already have choose language A or B makes no difference to their code quality (assuming they're proficient with both)

These are statements these developers will make themselves. They will say they don't like more strictly typed languages because they feel constrained and slowed down in development. They will argue that the performance hit is worth the trade offs.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by JimDabell »

ojosilva wrote: post #614
mritchie712 wrote: post #68

> At the time of writing, Bun's monthly downloads grew 25% last month (October, 2025), passing 7.2 million monthly downloads. We had over 4 years of runway to figure out monetization. We didn't have to join Anthropic. I believe this completely. They didn't have to join, which means they got a solid valuation. > Instead of putting our users & community through "Bun, the VC-backed startups tries to figure out monetizat…

Yeah, now they are part of Anthropic, who haven't figured out monetization themselves. Shikes! I'm a user of Bun and an Anthropic customer. Claude Code is great and it's definitely where their models shine. Outside of that Anthropic sucks,their apps and web are complete crap, borderline unusable and the models are just meh. I get it, CC's head got probably a powerplay here given his department is towing the company a…

> Yeah, now they are part of Anthropic, who haven't figured out monetization themselves.

Anthropic are on track to reach $9BN in annualised revenue by the end of the year, and the six-month-old Claude Code already accounts for $1BN of that.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by anamexis »

wrboyce wrote: post #640
yellow_lead wrote: post #546

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…

Perhaps my biggest claim to fame is being #11 on the bash.org top 100.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by metaltyphoon »

awesome_dude wrote: post #513
piskov wrote: 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.

You could make a better argument for Go (compiles to native for multiple targets, zero actual dependencies (no need for a platform or virtual machine on the target)

>zero actual dependencies

on Linux only with CGO_ENABLED=0 and good luck using some non web related 3rd party module which can be used with CGO disabled.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by jitl »

piskov wrote: 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.

There’s like 100x more JS developers than C# developers. JS can also run code very quickly, where with an AOT language, you need to AOT compile it. For tool calls, eval-as-a-service, running in browser JS is far ahead of C#.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by sergiotapia »

pier25 wrote: post #417

I wonder what this means for Deno. Will this make it more or less likely for people to use Bun vs Deno? And now that Bun doesn't need to run a profitable cloud company will they move faster and get ahead of Deno?

Prediction Bun is absorbed in house and used by Anthropic to have faster/cheaper places for Claude to run code.

It fades away as a direct to developer tool.

This is a good thing for Deno.

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