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50 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b 16h \ on: Anthropic acquires Bun tech
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."
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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
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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.