{"id":50283,"date":"2025-12-02T16:37:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T21:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=50283"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:06:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:06:03","slug":"anthropic-acquires-bun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/02\/anthropic-acquires-bun\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic Acquires Bun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bun.com\/blog\/bun-joins-anthropic\">Jarred Sumner<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=46124267\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/bun.com\/blog\/bun-joins-anthropic\"><p>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 &amp; tools.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><ul><li>Bun stays open-source &amp; MIT-licensed<\/li><li>Bun continues to be extremely actively maintained<\/li><li>The same team still works on Bun<\/li><li>Bun is still built in public on GitHub<\/li><li>Bun&rsquo;s roadmap will continue to focus on high performance JavaScript tooling, Node.js compatibility &amp; replacing Node.js as the default server-side runtime for JavaScript<\/li><\/ul><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Instead of putting our users &amp; community through &ldquo;Bun, the VC-backed startups tries to figure out monetization&rdquo; &#x2013; thanks to Anthropic, we can skip that chapter entirely and focus on building the best JavaScript tooling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/27\/javascript-runtimes-of-the-last-decade\/\">JavaScript Runtimes of the Last Decade<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"anthropic-acquires-bun-update-2025-12-03\">Update (<a href=\"#anthropic-acquires-bun-update-2025-12-03\">2025-12-03<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/taoofmac.com\/space\/links\/2025\/12\/03\/0801\">Rui Carmo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/taoofmac.com\/space\/links\/2025\/12\/03\/0801\"><p>I thought this was wonderfully serendipitous since I have <a href=\"https:\/\/taoofmac.com\/space\/notes\/2025\/11\/22\/2200\">recently started porting this site&rsquo;s engine to TypeScript on <code>bun<\/code><\/a>, following almost a year of running <a href=\"https:\/\/taoofmac.com\/space\/dev\/javascript\/node-red\">Node-RED<\/a> on it and assorted other low-risk experiments.<\/p><p>I started doing it because <code>bun<\/code> is the closest thing I&rsquo;ve come across yet to a &ldquo;batteries included&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/taoofmac.com\/space\/dev\/javascript\">JavaScript<\/a> runtime: it bundles <a href=\"dev\/sqlite\">SQLite<\/a> support, HTML parsing and sane HTTP primitives, can generate standalone executables, and the fact that it installs packages with sub-second delays and bundles its own <a href=\"https:\/\/taoofmac.com\/space\/dev\/typescript\">TypeScript<\/a> implementation is just icing on the cake.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jarred Sumner (via Hacker News): Bun has been acquired by Anthropic. 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