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. Why? Because Claude Code executes JavaScript like there's no tomorrow, and every millisecond counts when you have millions of users. In other words: if your business depends on running code fast, you buy the fastest runtime. But enough corporate gossip. Let's get to what matters: what Bun is and why you should care.…