Bun is joining Anthropic
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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 & tools.

Biggest WTF news I’ve read today. I’m not a web dev so this doesn’t affect me, but this is bizarre.

We get a closer first look at what’s around the corner for AI coding tools, and make Bun better for it

This incredibly popular tool is now going to merge with an AI company and shift gears to be turned into some forced AI hype machine. Yipee! Exactly what all the devs were hoping for! /s

  • justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io
    42·
    10 hours ago

    Not overly surprising.

    Google and Salesforce have been “developing” new features and products this way for at least the last 13 years?

    1. Find promising small business/startup
    2. Buy it with your war chest money
    3. Force them to integrate with your systems and live inside your walled garden.
      • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        11·
        5 hours ago

        Amazon.com acquired parent Quidsi, Inc. for $545 million on November 8, 2010. Prior to Amazon’s purchase, Amazon sold diapers at steep losses in order to undercut Diapers.com and drive down the purchase price of the company.

        No. Not if they really want to buy you.

        Source

        • justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io
          2·
          1 hour ago

          The whole Amazon diapers is insane.
          The burgeoning monopoly was being noticed as early as 2011. I know this because it is why the CEO of one chain here planned out and started offering grocery deliveries.

      • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
        15·
        9 hours ago

        yes, so long as you don’t them putting pressure on your suppliers and helping your competitors, I guess

      • jonathan@piefed.socialEnglish
        4·
        8 hours ago

        It depends on how much of the company you gave away when you took on investment. If you no longer have the controlling share you can be overruled.

      • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
        4·
        8 hours ago

        Getting bought is often the whole point for a founder, since that’s one of a few ways for you to get a big payday.

        Getting bought only really happens if a majority of the shareholders agree to it, so you can reject it as much as you want.