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kristianp • today at 8:29 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I'm confused. I installed claude code with:

    npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
I thought claude code just used Nodejs? I didn't realise the recommended install used a different runtime.

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simonw • today at 8:32 PM

They switched to recommending this as the installation method back in July:

  curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash
That install script gives you a single binary which is created using Bun.
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