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Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by someguyiguess »

PurpleRamen wrote: post #907
moritonal wrote: post #861

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This take is interesting given we're all here congratulating Jarred for seeing that there was no tool to solve x so made it, and is now enjoying a likely nice payday. Be the change you want to see in the world?

It kinda reads like a case of survivorship bias. He is the one in a million to reach the good ending, despite starting with the wrong choice; though in this case, the wrong choice brought him on the road to the good ending. Now the real question is, does the game loads significant better now, or does the performance still suck? In which case it might be more an excessive case of yak-shaving. And if yes, when can we e…

If the output generated by his attempts at making a better game is a much faster node runtime, then even if the game is still not usable does that matter? The end result is still an improvement over something that existed before. The game was just a catalyst.

Isn’t every success story really an example of survivorship bias?

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by richardlblair »

PurpleRamen wrote: post #907
moritonal wrote: post #861

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This take is interesting given we're all here congratulating Jarred for seeing that there was no tool to solve x so made it, and is now enjoying a likely nice payday. Be the change you want to see in the world?

It kinda reads like a case of survivorship bias. He is the one in a million to reach the good ending, despite starting with the wrong choice; though in this case, the wrong choice brought him on the road to the good ending. Now the real question is, does the game loads significant better now, or does the performance still suck? In which case it might be more an excessive case of yak-shaving. And if yes, when can we e…

Using your comment to address overall sentiment in this comment thread.

Builders build. Sometimes it's not about picking the right tools for the job or starting with the right choices. Sometimes it's just about building.

To use your road analogy - sometimes people just go for a drive. Sometimes those people end up right where they are supposed to be.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by ActionHank »

ignoramous wrote: post #589
davnicwil wrote: post #512

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Isn't what you're describing just a set of APIs with native bindings that the LLM can call? I'm not sure I understand why it's necessary to even couple this to a runtime, let alone own the runtime? Can't you just do it as a library and train/instruct the LLM to prefer using that library?

Mostly, just Jarred Sumner makes it worth it for Anthropic.

Why?

The whole point every CEO with a toe in the AI pool can't stop bleating on about is that software engineering is dead and replaced by AI.

bun is MIT licensed, they could take bun free of charge and use their Phd level software engineer god machine to iterate on it.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by throw10920 »

tomnipotent wrote: post #735
abnercoimbre wrote: post #625

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I understand the concern, but really? I found this quote enough to offer proper comments: > had a vague idea that "Zig people" were generally "Software You Can Love" or "Handmade Software Movement" types Folks at Bun are "Zig people" for obvious reasons, and a link was made with Handmade software. This happened multiple times before with Bun specifically, so my response is not a "pivot" of any kind. I've highlighted…

> and a link was made with Handmade software I'm willing to wager that 99.99% of readers do not associate "Handmade" with the org you're associated with, and that most didn't know it existed until this comment. So yes "really", without OP replying, it's understandable that the poster you're replying inferred it had nothing to do with you.

Yeah, I don't think of Handmade Cities when I hear the word "handmade". I think of Handmade Network and Casey Muratori, who actually coined the term and started the movement. I didn't even know about Handmade Cities before this comment, either. This is just shameless marketing/insertion on their part.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by someguyiguess »

notnullorvoid wrote: post #721
mock-possum wrote: post #718

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Most people use what they know. You start out that way, and if it turns out to be good, you can always do a v2

Yes, but there are obvious limits to that. This is like someone who knows how to bake wanting to build a car, so they start making it out of dough.

That is not a good analogy. Games are built using programming languages. JavaScript is a programming language. Cars are built using metals (usually steel). A better analogy would be like trying to build a car out of iron, a really heavy metal. Since js/node is very resource heavy requiring transpilation/etc…

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by informal007 »

someguyiguess wrote: post #906

This explains why Claude started transpiling & running JavaScript code! Yesterday, when I asked it to generate a document for me in JavaScript, it generated the JavaScript and then ran it to generate a document. I had never actually seen it compile and run any code before. It only would ever output code and either use the shell (Claude code) to run it on my local computer or allow me to copy and paste it.

Maybe they want to catch up the steps of Antigravity.

Running code is absolutely going to happen for coding assistant.

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by [deleted] »

johncolanduoni wrote: post #742
komali2 wrote: post #733

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Sure, but I'm more confused about the next.js usage than I am about the bundler. The bundler makes sense.

What effect do you imagine Next.js has on a bunch of code manipulating an HTML canvas? For vanilla code directly using browser APIs it’s basically just a bundler configuration, and while it’s not optimally configured for that use case (and annoying for other reasons) it’s probably better than what someone who has never configured webpack before would get doing it themselves.

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Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by Meneth »

krig wrote: post #468
logsr wrote: post #371

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> Vibe-coded projects get bought by vibe-coded companies this is so far from the truth. Bun, Zig, and uWebsockets are passion projects run by individuals with deep systems programming expertise. furthest thing from vibe coding imaginable. > a decade of performance competition in the JS VM space this was a rising tide that lifted all boats, including Node, but Node is built with much more of the system implemented in…

> Bun, Zig, and uWebsockets are passion projects run by individuals with deep systems programming expertise. furthest thing from vibe coding imaginable. Sure, I definitely will not throw projects like Zig into that bucket, and I don't actually think Bun is vibe-coded. At least that _used_ to be true, we'll see I guess... Don't read a snarky comment so literally ;)

From the article: "Over the last several months, the GitHub username with the most merged PRs in Bun's repo is now a Claude Code bot."

Re: Anthropic acquires Bun

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Post by catigula »

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 don't get the whole 'cloud' thing for AI agents. It feels forced. Who is actually using these services?
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