| ▲ | singularity2001 5 hours ago |
| "the full platform"
there are more languages than ts though?Acquisition of Apple Swift division incoming? |
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| ▲ | tomashubelbauer 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| TypeScript is the most popular programming language on the most popular software hosting platform though, owning the best runtime for that seems like it would fit Pareto's rule well enough: https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-a-new-... |
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| ▲ | gkoberger 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I think there's a potential argument to be made that Anthropic isn't trying to make it easier to write TS code, but rather that their goal is a level higher and the average person wouldn't even know what "language" is running it (in the same way most TS devs don't need to care the many layers their TS code is compiled via). |
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| ▲ | giancarlostoro 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | vlovich123 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Bun isn’t on the web. It’s a server runtime. | | |
| ▲ | giancarlostoro 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | rounce 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | They could do that already, nothing in the license prohibited them from doing so. | | |
| ▲ | giancarlostoro 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Sure, but Bun was funded by VCs and needed to figure out how to monetize, what Anthropic did is ensure it is maintained and now they have fresh talent to improve Claude Code. |
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| ▲ | vlovich123 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Server here I used loosely - it obviously runs on any machine (eg if you wanted to deploy an application with it as a runtime). But it’s not useful for web dev itself which was my point. Frontend work by definitions n doesn’t happen with either Node nor Bun. Some frontend tooling might be using a JS runtime but the value add of that is minimal and a lot of JS tooling is actually being rewritten in Rust for performance anyway. |
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| ▲ | bigyabai 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Why acquire Swift when you can write iOS apps in Typescript instead? |
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