Anthropic acquires Bun

Post by gedy » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 1:01 AM UTC

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Currently Claude etc. can interact with services (including AWS) via MCPs. What the user you're replying to is saying the Bun acquisition looks silly as a dev tool for Node. However if you look at their binding work for services like s3[0], the LLM will be able to interact directly with cloud services directly (lower latency, tighter integration, simplified deployment). 0: https://bun.com/docs/runtime/s3

An AI company scoops up frontend tech. Do you really think it was because of s3?

Post by kentonv » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 1:03 AM UTC

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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?

Post by wrboyce » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 1:14 AM UTC

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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…

Not discovered from scratch, but was a big fan when it was alive and kicking. Went there from time to time to get some mood boosters. So was very sad when found that it's gone (original one). Thanks a lot for sharing that bash-org-archive.com exists, what a great fun going down this memory lane.

Post by smj-edison » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 1:15 AM UTC

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I'm sort of surprised to see that you used Claude Code so much. I had a vague idea that "Zig people" were generally "Software You Can Love" or "Handmade Software Movement" types, about small programs, exquisitely hand-written, etc, etc. And I know Bun started with an extreme attention to detail around performance. I would have thought LLM-generated code would run a bit counter to both of those. I had sort of carved t…

I'm not sure about exquisite and small. Bun genuinely made me doubt my understanding of what good software engineering is. Just take a look at their code, here are a few examples: - this hand-rolled JS parser of 24k dense, memory-unsafe lines: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/c42539b0bf5c067e3d085646... (this is a version from quite a while ago to exclude LLM impact) - hand-rolled re-implementation of S3 directory…

Post by jazzypants » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 1:20 AM UTC

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

Wasm does count, and you can say the same about Go and others.