Can anybody explain to me why anthropic bought bun in the first place ?

3D39739091 19 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Nobody can.

"Claude Code uses Bun" is the reason that's given. But even though Anthropic tells us that "coding is solved", instead of rewriting Claude Code in something other than JS, they bought a company that made a JS runtime and then did a mass rewrite of that JS runtime.

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steveklabnik 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Claude Code uses bun.

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christkv 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah I get they use it but I don't understand why you would buy it. it's just the runtime for code that makes up the agent.

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steveklabnik 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Bun was a startup. Startups can go out of business, and then you are now scrambling to move your code to something else. They could also be bought by someone who has different priorities regarding future development than you, and that's also a risk.

The simplest solution to these problems, if you have the capital, is to buy them.

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christkv an hour ago | parent [-]

I get that but there is always node.js

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steveklabnik 43 minutes ago | parent [-]

They aren't exactly the same thing, moving to node would be possible but bun does more than node, so you need to replace the whole thing.

	▲	christkv 18 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Oh for sure. I guess its just as much a Acqui-hire as well as for the tech.