Why Anthropic Bought Bun, a High-Speed Runtime to Power Claude Tools and Dev Agents

Anthropic’s purchase of Bun focuses on fast runtimes with single-binary deploys and Node.js compatibility, helping teams run ...
Ars Technica

Who put this JavaScript in my COBOL? Node.cobol, that’s who

Last August, we told you about a project posted on GitHub by Romanian software developer Bizău Ionică that makes it possible for snips of legacy COBOL code to run within the JavaScript code of the ...
Wired

New Foundation Will Oversee Popular Coding Tool Node.js

Node.js---the popular open source tool for building and running websites and other online applications---is getting a new steward. Together with Microsoft, the Linux Foundation, IBM, PayPal, and ...
InfoWorld

What is Visual Studio Code? Microsoft’s extensible code editor

Visual Studio Code is a free, lightweight but powerful source code editor that runs on your desktop and on the web and is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi OS. It comes with ...

Anthropic makes first acquisition with purchase of Bun to accelerate Claude Code

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic PBC today announced it had made its first acquisition in acquiring developer tools startup Bun for an undisclosed price.
InfoWorld

Jailed JavaScript library runs untrusted code safely in browsers, Node.js

Jailed uses native JavaScript functions to run other libraries in a sandboxed environment, which could be the route to safer plugins and better automated testing of code A recently revised JavaScript ...