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Can anybody explain to me why anthropic bought bun in the first place ?
by christkv 3mo ago
Can anybody explain to me why anthropic bought bun in the first place ?
- steveklabnik 3mo agoClaude Code uses bun.
- christkv 3mo agoYeah 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.
- steveklabnik 3mo agoBun 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.
- christkv 3mo agoI get that but there is always node.js
- steveklabnik 3mo agoThey 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 3mo agoOh for sure. I guess its just as much a Acqui-hire as well as for the tech.
- 3D39739091 3mo agoNobody 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.
- Gigachad 3mo agoToo much money, not enough ideas what to do with it.