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Look Bun is a great product but something hilarious about the company that is “going to replace all software developers with AI” BUYING software. You are building a product that is supposed to make software cost 0 right? Why wouldn’t you just “vibe” code yourself Bun?
> going to replace all software developers with AI
No?
> building a product that is supposed to make software cost 0 right
No?
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> They didn't have to join, which means they got a solid valuation. This isn't really true. It's more about who wanted them to join. Maybe it was Anthropic who really wanted to take over Bun/hire Jarred, or it was Jarred who got sick of Bun and wanted to work on AI. I don't really know any details about this acquisition, and I assume it's the former, but acquihires are also done for other reasons than "it was the onl…
Can't edit my comment anymore but Bun posted a pretty detailed explanation of their motivation here: https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic Sounds like "monetizing Bun is a distraction, so we're letting a deep-pocketed buyer finance Bun moving forward".
Why the hell is a CLI coding agent built in JavaScript? It’s wild what happens when a generation of programmers doesn’t know anything except webdev. How far from grace we have fallen.
The big advantage of a language like JavaScript of Python for a CLI tool of this nature is that they naturally support adding extensions or plugins. That's quite a bit harder if your tool is built using a compiled language like Go.
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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.
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Java is owned by Oracle. And you sure don't want to do business with that company. There's a reason why postgresql is slowly eating their cake.
This is FUD. Java has many open source implementations and nobody needs to deal with Oracle.
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AI tools value simplicity, fast bootstrapping and iterations, this rules out the JVM which has the worst build system and package repositories I've ever had the displeasure of needing to use. Check in gradle binaries in 2025? Having to wait days for packages to sync? Windows/Linux gradle wrappers for every project? Broken builds and churn after every major upgrade. It's broken beyond repair. By contrast `bun install`…
By using Gradle you certainly didn't make yourself a favor.
If the build script being a DSL is the issue, they're even experimenting around declarative gradle scripts [0], which is going to be nice for people used to something like maven.
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Java can run anywhere too
AI tools value simplicity, fast bootstrapping and iterations, this rules out the JVM which has the worst build system and package repositories I've ever had the displeasure of needing to use. Check in gradle binaries in 2025? Having to wait days for packages to sync? Windows/Linux gradle wrappers for every project? Broken builds and churn after every major upgrade. It's broken beyond repair. By contrast `bun install`…
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Haven’t checked in on Java in a while?
I tried to check in on Java recently but got a NullPointerException when using the AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean !
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This is FUD. Java has many open source implementations and nobody needs to deal with Oracle.
Well except Google that got sued for US$8.8 Billion because they decided to use specific API signatures but provide their own implementation...?!
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This is FUD. Java has many open source implementations and nobody needs to deal with Oracle.
Well except Google that got sued for US$8.8 Billion because they decided to use specific API signatures but provide their own implementation...?!
Plus last time I checked Oracle lost that lawsuit.