What matters: it's staying open source and MIT licensed. I sincerely hope it stays that way. Congrats to the Bun team on making a great tool and getting the recognition they deserve.

> Being part of Anthropic gives Bun: Long-term stability.

Let's see. I don't want to always be the downer but the AI industry is in a state of rapid flux with some very strong economic headwinds. I wouldn't confidently say that hitching your wagon to AI gives you long term stability. But as long as the rest of us keep the ability to fork an open source project I won't complain too much.

(for those who are disappointed: this is why you stick with Node. Deno and Bun are both VC funded projects, there's only one way that goes. The only question is timeline)

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cortesoft 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Nothing gives you long term stability in tech. You have to constantly work at staying stable, and it isn't always up to anything the company is in control of, no matter what ownership they have.

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afavour 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> Nothing gives you long term stability in tech.

Sure. But everything is relative. For instance, Node has much more likelihood of long term stability than Bun, given its ownership.

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pier25 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Node has much more likelihood of long term stability than Bun

Given how many more dependencies you need to build/maintain a Node app, your Bun application has a better chance of long term stability.

With Node almost everything is third party (db driver, S3, router, etc) and the vast majority of NPM deps have dozens if not hundreds of deps.

	▲	afavour 39 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I’m talking about long term stability of the tool and ecosystem, not of any specific app.

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skybrian 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sure, that makes it a good backup strategy. But there’s little reason to use a worse tool until the time you need the backup comes.