They evidently evaluated Node.js in comparison to Bun (and Deno) earlier this year and came to a technical decision about which one worked best for their product.

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dvtkrlbs 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I highly doubt that the JS ecosystem is driven mostly by hype so I highly doubt the nodejs solution even put on a table in an internal issue tracker.

	▲	simonw 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Claude Code shipped on top of Node.js for the first four months of its existence. Why wouldn't they consider their options for bundling that version into a single binary using Node.js tooling before adopting Bun?