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The post mentions why - Bun eventually wanted to provide some sort of cloud-hosting saas product.

• TekMol 10mo ago
  Everyone could offer a cloud-hosted saas product that involves bun, right? Why invest into a company that has the additional burden of developing bun, why not in a company that does only the hosting?
  • simonw 10mo ago
    The standard argument here is that the maintainers of the core technology are likely to do a better job of hosting it because they have deeper understanding of how it all works. There's also the trick Deno has been trying, where they can use their control of the core open source project to build features that uniquely benefit their cloud hosting: https://til.simonwillison.net/deno/deno-kv#user-content-the-deno-deploy-cloud-hosted-version https://til.simonwillison.net/deno/deno-kv#user-content-the-...
  • simpsond 10mo ago
    Hosting is a commodity. Runtimes are too. In this case, the strategy is to make a better runtime, attract developers, and eventually give them a super easy way to run their project in the cloud. Eg: bun deploy, which is a reserved no op command. I really like Buns DX.
    • morshu9001 10mo ago
      Yep. This strategy can work, and it has also backfired before, like with Docker trying to monetize something they gave away for free.
• knowitnone3 10mo ago
  Except Amazon would beat them to it