Bun: The Runtime That Wants to Retire Node (and Now Has the Cash to Do It)
The news nobody saw coming Last week, while you and I were peacefully wrestling with node_modules, Anthropic dropped a bomb: they’ve bought Bun. Yes, the company behind Claude has decided that their future depends on a JavaScript runtime written in Zig by a guy who thought “what if Node, but fast?”. Claude Code just hit one billion dollars in revenue, and apparently the first thing you do when you have money to burn is buy development tools. ...