alt Hacker News> Good for serverless. Great for agents -> Anthropic purchase.
Surely nobody would use javascript for either yea? The weaknesses of the language are amplified in constrained environments: low certainty, high memory pressure, high startup costs.
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dtj1123 • today at 6:34 AM
Claude CLI is based on bun. The dependency is so complete that Bun have now joined Anthropic.
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messe • today at 6:19 AM
> Surely nobody would use javascript for either yea?
It's probably the most popular language for serverless.
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I think Bun helps with the memory pressure, granted this is relative to V8. I'd pushback on the certainty with the reality that TS provides a significant drop in entropy while benefiting from what is a sweet spot between massive corpus size and low barrier for typical problem/use-case complexity. You'll never have the fastest product with JS, but you will always have good speed to market and be able to move quickly.