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

    • Tony Bark@pawb.socialEnglish
      12·
      7 days ago

      JavaScript was built for the web. That’s fine. It’s corporations that took it out of its comfort zone even when better alternatives emerged.

    • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
      7·
      7 days ago

      Eh, it’s fine. It has some bad choices baked into it, but what language doesn’t? And JS in 2025 is miles better than JS in 2005.

      I wouldn’t choose it for every project, but it’s a reasonable choice in many cases.

      • DoctorPress@lemmy.zip
        5·
        8 days ago

        It is only used because it is the only available option on web. Don’t bitch me about webassembly when it is missing half of the api and doubles up page load time.

        • aichan@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          8 days ago

          WASM is that much slower? I get that needing a f*** Js wrapper to be able to use the DOM cannot be good, but is there really that much of a difference?