Anthropic acquires Bun

Post by jomohke » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 2:18 AM UTC

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From the article, Claude Code is being used extensively to develop Bun already. > Over the last several months, the GitHub username with the most merged PRs in Bun's repo is now a Claude Code bot. We have it set up in our internal Discord and we mostly use it to help fix bugs. It opens PRs with tests that fail in the earlier system-installed version of Bun before the fix and pass in the fixed debug build of Bun. It r…

> You do still need people to make all the decisions about how Bun is developed, and to use Claude Code. Yeah but do you really need external hires to do that? Surely Anthropic has enough experienced JavaScript developers internally they could decide how their JS toolchain should work. Actually, this is thinking too small. There's no reason that each developer shouldn't be able to customize their own developer tools…

Post by cyanydeez » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 2:20 AM UTC

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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, they just posted this a few days ago: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use They discussed how running generated code is better for context management in many cases. The AI can generate code to retrieve, process, and filter the data it needs rather than doing it in-context, thus reducing context needs. Furthermore, if you can run the code right next to the server where the data is, it's all tha…

Post by throwawaymaths » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 2:26 AM UTC

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run code anywhere hamstrung by 90s syntax and hidden code indirections

Haven’t checked in on Java in a while?

Post by throwup238 » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 2:35 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…

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

Post by zelphirkalt » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 2:36 AM UTC

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Honestly, given the constant rollercoaster of version management and building tools for Python the move to something else would be expected rather than surprising. I’ve seems like a great tool, but I remember thinking the same about piping, too.

uv is a revolution in every possible positive sense of the word in the Python world and I've been here since 1.5. it is imperative that bitter oldtimers like us try it, I did and the only regret I've got is that I didn't do it sooner.