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Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by gjvc »

nrhrjrjrjtntbt wrote: post #657
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…

"We were maybe gonna fuck ya, buy now we promise we wont"

apart from the unfortunate typo, this is accurate.

like when a political leader says they have full faith in one of their ministers, you know said minister will be gone by next week.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by rs186 »

fishmicrowaver wrote: post #516
ojame wrote: post #483

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

JavaScript ≠ frontend

bun ≠ front end development tool

hasn't been like that for many years

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by rs186 »

mrcsharp wrote: post #499
ojame wrote: post #483

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

That doesn't make sense either. Agents already have access to MCPs and Tools. Your example is solved by having an S3 wrapper as a set of tools.

I bet you didn't click that link. A wrapper and an API that is built-in to the runtime and optimized for those use cases are different things.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by djfdat »

jillesvangurp wrote: post #805
dts wrote: post #395

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…

I'm not confused about the acquisition but about the investment. What were the investors thinking? This is an open source development tool with (to date), 0$ of revenue and not even the beginnings of a plan for getting such a thing. The acquisition makes more sense. A few observations: - no acquisition amount was announced. That indicates some kind of share swap where the investors change shares for one company into…

They don't need Bun to make revenue, but they need Bun to continue existing and growing for their products to make revenue. Now they can ensure its survival, push for growth, and provide resources so that Bun can build the best product rather than focus on making money.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by epolanski »

throwaway-0001 wrote: post #723
hiduck wrote: post #583

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more people should have such a healthy approach not only to llms but to life in general. Same reason I partake less and less in online discourse: its so tribal and filled with anger that its just not worth it to contribute anymore. Learning how to be in the middle did wonders to me as a programmer and I think as a person as well.

Personally I hate this “in the middle” as it’s so relative you can shape to fit your narrative. For example: what’s in the middle for programming? For me 0 is writing 0 and 1. For others 0 is making the nand ports. And 100 is ai llm vibe. So 50/middle would be what exactly? It all depends. Same for anything really. Some people I know keep saying not 8 not 80 to mean the middle. Like what’s in the middle for amount of…

You can hate it all you want but the world ain't black or white but a scale of greys. You're over focusing on which exact shade of grey one's talking, but it's indeed relative.

> So 50/middle would be what exactly? It all depends.

Using LLMs to explore code bases, doing deep research, asking it to do code reviews or find bugs, but not pushing code that LLMs have authored might be one example in the middle.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by ramon156 »

notnullorvoid wrote: post #708

I am more shocked about the origin story compared to the acquisition. > Almost five years ago, I was building a Minecraft-y voxel game in the browser. The codebase got kind of large, and the iteration cycle time took 45 seconds to test if changes worked. Most of that time was spent waiting for the Next.js dev server to hot reload. Why in the hell would anyone be using Next.js to make a 3D game... Jarred has always se…

I don't think his goal was to get the fastest voxel engine. Most projects just start with "That's stupid... but what if I did it anyway?"

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by dgellow »

losvedir wrote: post #446
Jarred wrote: post #361

I work on Bun. Happy to answer any questions

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 love zig, in my experience claude code is extremely good with the language if you invest lots of time on design sessions, to the point where I spend >90% of my time only discussing design with claude. The fact it has easy access to sources of the whole stdlib by just downloading the zig tarball makes it really simple to have a feedback loop where it implement most of the boilerplate on its own. The quality of AI code is really something that can be well controlled with clear guidelines, strict reviews, comprehensive design sessions, and a great test infrastructure

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by VMG »

yellow_lead wrote: post #546
ok_dad wrote: post #537

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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…

Java can run anywhere too

and JavaScript even anywherer!

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by nrhrjrjrjtntbt »

gjvc wrote: post #871
nrhrjrjrjtntbt wrote: post #657

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"We were maybe gonna fuck ya, buy now we promise we wont"

apart from the unfortunate typo, this is accurate. like when a political leader says they have full faith in one of their ministers, you know said minister will be gone by next week.

lol. maybe more correct with the typo. if you buy you hopefully become the customer!
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