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Anthropic acquires Bun

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Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by smcleod »

bopbopbop7 wrote: post #312
smcleod wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect you do not know how to use AI for writing code. No offence intended - it is a journey for everyone. You have to be setup with the right agentic coding tool, agent rules, agent tools (MCP servers), dynamic context acquisition and workflow (working with the agent operate from a plan rather than simple prompting and hoping for the best). But if you're lazy, don't put the effort in to understand what you're wor…

How many agents, tools, MCP & ACP servers, claude hooks, and workflows do I need to set up before English becomes a good programming language?

One agent, a few sub-agents, 1 MCP server, no "ACP" (never seen that used), no hooks, one workflow that I usually follow.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by rvnx »

cobolcomesback wrote: post #441
_jab wrote: post #423

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This argument doesn’t make much sense to me. Claude Code, like any product, presumably has dozens of external dependencies. What’s so special about Bun specifically that motivated an acquisition?

A dependency that forms the foundation of your build process, distribution mechanisms, and management of other dependencies is a materially different risk than a dependency that, say, colorizes terminal output. I’m doubtful that alone motivated an acquisition, it was surely a confluence of factors, but Bun is definitely a significant dependency for Claude Code.

MIT code, let Bun continue develop it, once project is abandoned hire the developers.

If they don't want to maintain; GitHub fork with more motivated people.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by square_usual »

rco8786 wrote: post #448
simonw wrote: post #390

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It doesn't read like that to me at all. This reads to me like Anthropic realizing that they have $1bn in annual revenue from Claude Code that's dependent on Bun, and acquiring Bun is a great and comparatively cheap way to remove any risk from that dependency.

Except bun is OSS, so they could have just forked if something happened

It's not easy to "just" fork a huge project like Bun. You'll need to commit several devs to it, and they'll have to have Zig and JSC experience, a hard combo to hire for. In many ways, this is an acquihire.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by smcleod »

brobdingnagians wrote: post #276
smcleod wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect you do not know how to use AI for writing code. No offence intended - it is a journey for everyone. You have to be setup with the right agentic coding tool, agent rules, agent tools (MCP servers), dynamic context acquisition and workflow (working with the agent operate from a plan rather than simple prompting and hoping for the best). But if you're lazy, don't put the effort in to understand what you're wor…

Do you know of any YouTube videos where you would say they do a very good job of showing off this style of coding?

This one is a bit old now so a number of things have changed (I mostly use Claude Code now, Dynamic context (Skills) etc...) but here's a brief TLDR I did early this year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDSLw-6vR4o

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by convenwis »

linkage wrote: post #388
Jarred wrote: post #361

I work on Bun. Happy to answer any questions

You said elsewhere that there were many suitors. What is the single most important thing about Anthropic that leads you to believe they will be dominant in the coming years?

No idea about his feelings but believing that they will be dominant wouldn't have to be the reason he chose them. I could easily imagine that someone would decide based on (1) they offered enough money and (2) values alignment.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by jasnell »

smarnach wrote: post #310
cesarvarela wrote: post #101

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I've found it to be at least twice as fast with practically no compat issues.

Twice as fast at executing JavaScript? There's absolutely zero chance this is true. A JavaScript engine that's twice as fast as V8 in general doesn't exist. There may be 5 or 10 percent difference, but nothing really meaningful.

Keep in mind that it's not just a matter of comparing the JS engine. The runtime that is built around the engine can have a far greater impact on performance than the choice of v8 vs. JSC vs. anything else. In many microbenchmarks, Bun routinely outperforms Node.js and Deno in most tasks by a wide margin.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

kelvinjps10 wrote: post #296
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #94

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But how is another company that is also VC backed and losing money providing stability for Bun? How long before we hear about “Our Amazing Journey”? On the other hand, I would rather see someone like Bun have a successful exit where the founders seem to have started out with a passion project, got funding, built something out they were excited about and then exit than yet another AI company by non technical founders…

I misread Amazon, implying that Amazon might buy Anthropic, and I think that's what will end up happening.

In my three or four non chatbot related projects, I’ve found Amazon’s Nova models to be just as good as Anthropic’s.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by GianFabien »

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?

I think Deno's management have been somewhat distracted by their ongoing lawsuits with Oracle over the release of the Javascript trademark.

I started out with Deno and when I discovered Bun, I pivoted. Personally I don't need the NodeJS/NPM compatability. Wish there was a Bun-lite which was freed of the backward compatability.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by M4v3R »

ngrilly wrote: post #456

Considering that 1) Bun is written in Zig, 2) Zig has a strict no-AI policy [1], and 3) Bun has joined Claude, it seems that Bun and Zig are increasingly culturally apart. [1] https://ziglang.org/code-of-conduct/#strict-no-llm-no-ai-pol...

Nothing I found says anything about Zig folks being inherently against AI. It just looks like they don’t want to deal with “AI Slop” in contributions to their project, which is very understandable.
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