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 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. ...