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 struggling with node_modules, Anthropic dropped a bomb: they bought Bun. Yes, the company behind Claude decided their future involves a JavaScript runtime written in Zig by a guy who thought “what if Node, but fast?” Claude Code just hit a billion dollars in revenue, and apparently the first thing you do when you have cash to spare is buy development tools. ...