Bun is joining Anthropic
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Bun has been acquired by Anthropic. Anthropic is betting on Bun as the infrastructure powering Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, and future AI coding products & tools.

Biggest WTF news I’ve read today. I’m not a web dev so this doesn’t affect me, but this is bizarre.

We get a closer first look at what’s around the corner for AI coding tools, and make Bun better for it

This incredibly popular tool is now going to merge with an AI company and shift gears to be turned into some forced AI hype machine. Yipee! Exactly what all the devs were hoping for! /s

  • clif@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    Damn it. I’ve been following bun for a long time and using it casually… Guess it’s good I didn’t get too far into it

    • sga@piefed.socialEnglish
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      26 days ago

      i am not a web dev, so please correct me if i am wrong, but a runtime is essentially a specific version of browser in some capacity, more comparable to blink in some sense (minus the html+css parts). so there is a js engine (v8 or firefox’s spider if i am not wrong) and that essentially just executes the js, but it needs stuff around it (think for example io or cli interface). none of the run times implement independent js engines, as they are really hard, but surrounding stuff is relatively easier, and likes of deno/node/bun implement that.

      And as other commenter said - it has other stuff too, for example a package manager, transpiler (most common would be converting typescript to js i think), bundler (just makes a bundle kinda like java jar), etc.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      27 days ago

      A bundler, a transpiler, a runtime (designed to be a drop-in replacement for Node.js), test runner, and a package manager - all in one.

      Bun’s single-file executables turned out to be perfect for distributing CLI tools. You can compile any JavaScript project into a self-contained binary—runs anywhere, even if the user doesn’t have Bun or Node installed. Works with native addons. Fast startup. Easy to distribute.

  • paequ2@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    27 days ago

    I started using Claude Code myself. I got kind of obsessed with it.

    Over the last several months, the GitHub username with the most merged PRs in Bun’s repo is now a Claude Code bot. We have it set up in our internal Discord and we mostly use it to help fix bugs. It opens PRs with tests that fail in the earlier system-installed version of Bun before the fix and pass in the fixed debug build of Bun. It responds to review comments. It does the whole thing.

    Seems like they’ve bought into the hype.

  • LostWanderer@fedia.io
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    27 days ago

    As a regular joe on the web, it doesn’t affect me directly, yet. However, I foresee more slop sites getting put out there in as the Execucult’s naked desire to worship and exalt the thing they are desperately trying to make fetch: AI. This year is so fucking weird with all the AI glazing and executives trying to desperately will AI into a moneymaking thing. Spoiler Alert: It’s probably going to continue hemorrhaging money as most people can’t be arsed to use it nor do they want products with it crammed in.

  • rozodru@pie.andmc.caEnglish
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    27 days ago

    yeah as a dev myself I saw this coming a few months back and stopped using Bun so this doesn’t surprise me. They got on the cursor hype train awhile back and that was enough for me.

  • Taevas@beehaw.org
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    27 days ago

    Man, Bun’s great, I’ve been using it since 1.0.0 essentially so that REALLY sucks

    Like some of the other people commentating on this thread, I’ll look into using something else, but it’s really sad and frustrating that I need to switch things over and over again

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
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    27 days ago

    Oh goddamn it. I just started doing projects in Bun and moving some of my older projects to it.

    Fuck fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck.

  • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de
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    27 days ago

    People who are surprised by VC funded software going to shit…

    Funniest thing I I’ve seen in ages.

    Seriously, this always happens. At some point the investors want a huge payout and they will get it by exploiting existing users or they just shutdown the whole company and strip it for parts.