Genuine question. Why are companies buying our runtimes ? What is the advantage ? Maintaining open source and having more adoption in specific softwares like runtimes and programming languages helps keep software more robust and reliable right ? Am I getting something wrong.

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culi 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In this specific case, it's probably just aqui-hiring. There's a ton of incredible talent at Deno and Cloudflare can pay them a lot more

Also Deno was starting to try to increase revenue with stuff like Deno Deploy. If Deno did succeed, they would be a direct competitor with Cloudflare Workers

With Bun I think it was basically a marketing ploy. To show that it can be developed by AI and still useful

	▲	Quothling 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> With Bun I think it was basically a marketing ploy. I don't know, the vast majority of daily Microsoft Defender offenders I have to wade through, as well as the majority of the intune remidy requests are related to Node being used in various Microsoft applications. The Azure CLI is one of them, but the one which really ranks high on the security risk levels is always something "Agent" or "AI" related folder which I assume are what runs the Copilot and Cowork clients. I think I had around 800 CVE warnings in relations to Axios in side a Microsoft tool related to AI running node this week, from just 8 devices. Bun having it's own batteries included is probably a nice benefit to avoid that.
	▲	hbn 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I think in a case like Bun they're also potentially buying the pre-built goodwill associated with the project.
	▲	thayne 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I there was also an acquihire component to bun as well.

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mattvr 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In this case, they're explicitly not buying the runtime. They're killing the runtime.