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Original author of Claude Code is expert on TypeScript [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Programming-TypeScript-Making-JavaScr...

is that the reason why Anthropic acquired Bun, a javascript tooling company?

Yes, that's essentially the only practical reason.

He commented here about it (sort of)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21934336

Thanks hackernewsbooks for sending me that!

Anthropic acquired bun last year https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic

LLMs are good in JS and Python which means everything from now on will be written in or ported to either of those two languages. So yeah, JS is the future of all software.

This is a common take but language servers bridge the gap well.

Language servers, however, are a pain on Claude code. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/15619

Would have believed you if you have said that a day later.

Alternatively: why not?

It's not a desktop tool, it's a CLI tool.

But a lot of desktop tools are written in JS because it's easy to create multi-platform applications.

Because it's the most popular programming language in the world?

I am happy you woke up from your 10 year coma.