> Long-term stability. a home and resources so people can safely bet their stack on Bun.
Isn't it the opposite? Now we've tied Bun to "AI" and if the AI bubble or hype or whatever bursts or dies down it'd impact Bun.
> We had over 4 years of runway to figure out monetization. We didn't have to join Anthropic.
There's honestly a higher chance of Bun sticking out that runway than the current AI hype still being around.
Nothing against Anthropic but with the circular financing, all the debt, OpenAI's spending and over-valuations "AI" is the riskier bet than Bun and hosting.
The effective demand for Opus 4.5 is bottomless; the models will only get better.
People will always want a code model as good as we have now, let alone better.
Bun securing default status in the best coding model is a win-win-win
It does matter. The public ultimately determines how much they get in funding if at all.
> The effective demand for Opus 4.5 is bottomless; the models will only get better.
The demand for the Internet is bottomless. Doesn't mean Dotcom didn't crash.
There are lots of scenarios this can play out, e.g. Anthropic fails to raise a certain round because money dried up. OpenAI buys Anthropic but decides they don't need Bun and closes out the project.
I didn’t say it was definitely the end or definitely would end up worse, just that someone who’s followed tech news for a while is unlikely to take this as increasing the odds Bun survives mid-term. If the company was in trouble anyway, sure, maybe, but not if they still had fourish years in the bank.
“Acquired product thriving four years later” isn’t unheard of, but it’s not what you expect. The norm is the product’s dead or stagnant and dying by then.
> Being part of Anthropic gives Bun: Long-term stability.
Let's see. I don't want to always be the downer but the AI industry is in a state of rapid flux with some very strong economic headwinds. I wouldn't confidently say that hitching your wagon to AI gives you long term stability. But as long as the rest of us keep the ability to fork an open source project I won't complain too much.
(for those who are disappointed: this is why you stick with Node. Deno and Bun are both VC funded projects, there's only one way that goes. The only question is timeline)
Sure. But everything is relative. For instance, Node has much more likelihood of long term stability than Bun, given its ownership.
I’ve seems like a great tool, but I remember thinking the same about piping, too.
Programming languages all are a balance between performance/etc and making it easy for a human to interact with. This balance is going to shit as AI writes more code (and I assume Anthropic wants a future where humans might not even see the code, but rather an abstraction of it... after all, all code we look at is an abstraction on some level).
"the full platform"
Acquisition of Apple Swift division incoming?
https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-a-new-...
Anything is greater than 0
Claude Code is a 1B+ cash machine and Anthropic directly uses Bun for it.
Acquiring Bun lowers the risk of the software being unmaintained as Bun made $0 and relied on VC money.
Makes sense, but this is just another day in San Francisco of a $0 revenue startup being bought out.
Why?
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?
IOW look where the puck is going.
I'll admit I'm somewhat biased against Bun, but I'm honestly interested in knowing why people prefer Bun over Deno.
Even with a cold cache, `bun install` with a large-ish dependency graph is significantly faster than `npm install` in my experience.
I don't know if Deno does that, but some googling for "deno install performance vs npm install" doesn't turn up much, so I suspect not?
As a runtime, though, I have no opinion. I did test it against Node, but for my use case (build tooling for web projects) it didn't make a noticeable difference, so I decided to stick with Node.
Despite the page title being "Fullstack dev server", it's also useful in production (Ctrl-F "Production Mode").
Congrats to Jarred and the team!
This is promising for Astral et al who I really like but worried about their sustainability. It does point to being as close to the user as possible mattering.
Very direct, very plain and detailed. They cover all the bases about the why, the how, and what to expect. I really appreciate it.
Best of luck to the team and hopefully the new home will support them well.
How long before we hear about “Our Amazing Journey”?
On the other hand, I would rather see someone like Bun have a successful exit where the founders seem to have started out with a passion project, got funding, built something out they were excited about and then exit than yet another AI company by non technical founders who were built with the sole purpose of getting funding and then exit.
So many of the issues with it seem to be because ... they wrote the damn thing in JavaScript?
Claude is pretty good at a constrained task with tests -- couldn't you just port it to a different language? With Claude?
And then just ... the huge claude.json which gets written on every message, like ... SQLite exists! Please, please use it! The scrollback! The Keyboard handling! Just write a simple Rust or Go or whatever CLI app with an actual database and reasonable TUI toolkit? Why double down and buy a whole JavaScript runtime?
That perspective following “in two-three years” makes me shudder, honestly.
I believe this completely. They didn't have to join, which means they got a solid valuation.
> Instead of putting our users & community through "Bun, the VC-backed startups tries to figure out monetization" – thanks to Anthropic, we can skip that chapter entirely and focus on building the best JavaScript tooling.
I believe this a bit less. It'll be nice to not have some weird monetization shoved into bun, but their focus will likely shift a bit.
moreover, now they can make investments in order to make it an an even more efficient and secure runtime for model workspaces.
Investors must be happy because Bun never had to find out how to become profitable.
except this sense:
> Investors must be happy because Bun never had to find out how to become profitable.
ChrisArchitect•31m ago