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yanis_t | 3 months ago

I don't get it. Why would Anthropic need to own a JS runtime?

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simonw|3 months ago

Because they have a product that makes $1bn+ a year that depends on having a good, stable, cross-platform JS runtime.

krashidov|3 months ago

I'm still confused. Why not just pour a ton of resources into it since it's open source. I guess dev mindshare? It is a great product

sneak|3 months ago

That doesn’t require or benefit from acquiring Bun. Node continues to exist and serve fine.

LunaSea|3 months ago

You're describing Node.js which has existed for the last 15 years

altmanaltman|3 months ago

but they are a company that burns billions every year in losses and this seems like a pretty random acquisition.

Bun is the product that depends on providing that good, stable, cross-platform JS runtime and they were already doing a good job. Why would Anthropic's acquisition of them make them better at what they were already doing?

pzo|3 months ago

Ok but node is even more stable and mature - compare node api parity in bun and also issue of bun vs node

fprotthetarball|3 months ago

I'm wondering if Bun would be a good embedded runtime for Claude to think in. If it does sandboxing, or if they can add sandboxing, then they can standardize on a language and runtime for Claude Code and Claude Desktop and bake it into training like they do with other agentic things like tool calls. It'd be too risky to do unless they owned the runtime.

baq|3 months ago

Why would Sun then Oracle own Java? Why would Microsoft own .net? Why would Apple own swift?

IOW look where the puck is going.