Nodejs

A 100-Megabyte Binary for a CLI Anthropic just announced that Claude Code is now available as a native build. Translation: a binary executable you can install with a curl command that doesn’t need Node.js. Sounds good, right? One command, no dependencies, background auto-updates. Any CLI tool’s dream. But there’s a catch: the binary weighs 100MB. To put this in perspective, the git binary weighs about 3MB. curl is less than 1MB. Even Go, which has a reputation for generating fat binaries, rarely exceeds 15-20MB. ...

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. ...