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DeathArrowtoday at 10:12 AM7 repliesview on HN

Why is Claude Code, a desktop tool, written in JS? Is the future of all software JS or Typescript?


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jsk2600today at 10:18 AM

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

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

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progxtoday at 12:03 PM

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

bigbezettoday at 10:19 AM

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.

monkpittoday at 12:34 PM

Alternatively: why not?

wanttosaythingstoday at 11:40 AM

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.

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ivanjermakovtoday at 10:29 AM

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

TiredOfLifetoday at 11:25 AM

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