Claude Code Is Running on Rust Bun, and That’s the Quietly Interesting Part
For Claude Code users, this is one of those infrastructure changes that barely shows up in the product experience but matters a lot underneath. Simon Willison dug into the binary and found evidence that Claude Code is now using the Rust port of Bun, which fits Jarred Sumner’s claim that the newer Claude Code release line adopted it and got a small startup win. Jarred Sumner said that Claude Code v2.1.181 and later use the Rust port of Bun. The claimed benefit was modest: startup got about 10% fa
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