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Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by Karrot_Kream »

drakythe wrote: post #74
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…

Given the worries about LLM focused companies reaching profitability I have concerns that Bun's runway will be hijacked... I'd hate for them to go down with the ship when the bubble pops.

This is my fear. It's one thing to lose a major sponsor. It's another to get cut due to a focus on profitability later down the line.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by kristianp »

simonw wrote: post #368
kristianp wrote: post #363

I'm confused. I installed claude code with: npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code I thought claude code just used Nodejs? I didn't realise the recommended install used a different runtime.

They switched to recommending this as the installation method back in July: curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash That install script gives you a single binary which is created using Bun.

Maybe that's why I didn't have some bugs people were reporting on HN, or because I was using linux.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by odie5533 »

dboreham wrote: post #95
mhitza wrote: post #77

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

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

But what is the upside for anthropic?

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by jomohke »

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"

Why do people always stop this quote at the breath? The rest of it says that he still thinks they need tech employees.

> .... and in 12 months, we might be in a world where the ai is writing essentially all of the code. But the programmer still needs to specify what are the conditions of what you're doing. What is the overall design decision. How we collaborate with other code that has been written. How do we have some common sense with whether this is a secure design or an insecure design. So as long as there are these small pieces that a programmer has to do, then I think human productivity will actually be enhanced

(He then said it would continue improving, but this was not in the 12 month prediction.)

Source interview: https://www.youtube.com/live/esCSpbDPJik?si=kYt9oSD5bZxNE-Mn

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by pier25 »

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?

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by Jarred »

brrrrrm wrote: post #404
Jarred wrote: post #361

I work on Bun. Happy to answer any questions

on Bun's website, the runtime section features HTTP, networking, storage -- all are very web-focused. any plans to start expanding into native ML support? (e.g. GPUs, RDMA-type networking, cluster management, NFS)

Probably not. When we add new APIs in Bun, we generally base the interface off of popular existing packages. The bar is very high for a runtime to include libraries because the expectation is to support those APIs ~forever. And I can’t think of popular existing JS libraries for these things.
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