Well not gonna use Bun anymore I guess
Why not?
Anthropic acquires Bun
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Re: Anthropic acquires Bun
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
"the full platform" there are more languages than ts though? Acquisition of Apple Swift division incoming?
According to a JetBrains dev survey (I forget the year) roughly 58% of devs deploy to the web. That's a big money pie right there.
Bun isn’t on the web. It’s a server runtime.
Re: Anthropic acquires Bun
#93I don't really see how Bun fits as an acquisition for an AI company. This seems more like "we have tons of capital and we want to buy something great" than "Bun is essential to our core business model".
If Anthropic wants to own code development in the future, owning the full platform (including the runtime) makes sense. Programming languages all are a balance between performance/etc and making it easy for a human to interact with. This balance is going to shit as AI writes more code (and I assume Anthropic wants a future where humans might not even see the code, but rather an abstraction of it... after all, all cod…
They will own it, and then what? Will Claude Code end every response with "by the way, did you know that you can switch to bun for 21.37x faster builds?"
Re: Anthropic acquires Bun
#94I’ll be honest, while I have my doubts about the match of interests and cohesion between an AI company and a JS runtime company I have to say this is the single best acquisition announcement blog post I’ve seen in 20 years or so. Very direct, very plain and detailed. They cover all the bases about the why, the how, and what to expect. I really appreciate it. Best of luck to the team and hopefully the new home will su…
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 who were built with the sole purpose of getting funding and then exit.
Re: Anthropic acquires Bun
#95This acquisition makes no sense. Investors must be happy because Bun never had to find out how to become profitable.
> This acquisition makes no sense.
except this sense:
> Investors must be happy because Bun never had to find out how to become profitable.
Re: Anthropic acquires Bun
#96I don't get it. Why would Anthropic need to own a JS runtime?
Why would Sun then Oracle own Java? Why would Microsoft own .net? Why would Apple own swift?
IOW look where the puck is going.
Re: Anthropic acquires Bun
#97I don't get it. Why would Anthropic need to own a JS runtime?
I'm wondering if Bun would be a good embedded runtime for Claude to think in. If it does sandboxing, or if they can add sandboxing, then they can standardize on a language and runtime for Claude Code and Claude Desktop and bake it into training like they do with other agentic things like tool calls. It'd be too risky to do unless they owned the runtime.
Re: Anthropic acquires Bun
#98I don't really see how Bun fits as an acquisition for an AI company. This seems more like "we have tons of capital and we want to buy something great" than "Bun is essential to our core business model".
If Anthropic wants to own code development in the future, owning the full platform (including the runtime) makes sense. Programming languages all are a balance between performance/etc and making it easy for a human to interact with. This balance is going to shit as AI writes more code (and I assume Anthropic wants a future where humans might not even see the code, but rather an abstraction of it... after all, all cod…
Even outside of code development, Anthropic seems to be very strongly leaning into code interpreter over native tool calling for advancing agentic LLM abilities (e.g. their "skills" approach). Given that those necessitate a runtime of sorts, owning/having access to a runtime like Bun that could e.g. allow them to very seamlessly integrate that functionality into their products better, this acquisition doesn't seem like the worst idea.
Re: Anthropic acquires Bun
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because they have a product that makes $1bn+ a year that depends on having a good, stable, cross-platform JS runtime.
You're describing Node.js which has existed for the last 15 years
And is owned by Microsoft. The theory is that by symmetry Anthropic should own a node competitor.
Re: Anthropic acquires Bun
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
According to a JetBrains dev survey (I forget the year) roughly 58% of devs deploy to the web. That's a big money pie right there.
Bun isn’t on the web. It’s a server runtime.
It's a JS runtime, not specifically servers though? They essentially can bundle Claude Code with this, instead of ever relying on someone installing NodeJS and then running npm install.
Claude will likely be bundled up nicely with Bun in the near future. I could see this being useful to let even a beginner use claude code.
Edit:
Lastly, what I meant originally is that most front-end work happens with tools like Node or Bun. At first I was thinking they could use it to speed up generating / pulling JS projects, but it seems more likely Claude Code and bun will have a separate project where they integrate both and make Claude Code take full advantage of Bun itself, and Bun will focus on tight coupling to ensure Claude Code is optimally running.