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Anthropic acquires Bun bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic

This link was posted by ryanvogel 4 hours ago on HN. It received 1156 points and 562 comments.

Feels like a strange acquisition unless they're going to build the model into the standard library and/or runtime somehow. That's pretty galaxy brained if that's what this is. Like, if everyone is buying/building IDEs what is that a stepping stone to?

I've never used Bun and jumped straight to Deno because it seemed like, and in fact was, being built by someone who had thought about how to fix nodejs for a decade. Still I can understand the appeal of "nodejs but faster."

112 sats \ 4 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 16h

Top comment on the HN post:

A lot of people seem confused about this acquisition because they think of Bun as a node.js compatible bundler / runtime and just compare it to Deno / npm. But I think its a really smart move if you think of where Bun has been pushing into lately which is a kind of cloud-native self contained runtime (S3 API, SQL, streaming, etc). For an agent like Claude Code this trajectory is really interesting as you are creating a runtime where your agent can work inside of cloud services as fluently as it currently does with a local filesystem. Claude will be able to leverage these capabilities to extend its reach across the cloud and add more value in enterprise use cases

Does that help any?

I’ve never used Bun either

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @brent 10h

My immediate thought was that it was a security move, owning the supply chain, etc., given the recent string of npm backdoor attacks.

But this cloud hosting angle makes the most sense. I didn't know about Bun's cloud runtime offerings. It will allow Claude to publish its Artifacts without the need for third party hosting.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @adlai 7h

I've been reading slop and news about slop daily for over a year, and only now I noticed the similarity between "Claude" and "Cloud".

I guess it shows I've not been reading Reddit much, I recall that sort of pun being all over the place in the comments there.

50 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 16h

It doesn't fully connect the dots but it adds more dots which is helpful

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 16h

Heh, that’s about how I felt reading it, too