Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good • Tero Piirainen
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The last three months have not looked good for Bun. It started as one of the most impressive individual engineering projects I have seen, but has now turned into this weird AI-powered creature with continuous false promises and an increasingly frustrated community.

  • chickenf622@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    I knew it was going to happen as soon as the announcement was made. Now is probably a good time to switch the build setup back over to Node or try our Deno.

    • spartanatreyu@programming.dev
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      4 days ago

      Deno has always made more sense than Bun, but all the social media influences jumped on the new thing.

      I use Deno over node on new projects purely for the security model, and the fact that their standard library means I don’t need a spaghetti nest of dependencies.

      Deno shares one minor annoying thing with node. The features of both slowly change over time in such a way that I need to use a specific version of Deno/Node for each project. The node community solved this with NVM. Deno has it build into the cli with deno upgrade v<semver goes here>. The annoying thing is that it downloads a Deno binary every time instead of switching to a cached one. Great if you’re online, but if you’re on a laptop on the move it’s annoying.

      But knowing Deno, they’ll just build in that runtime caching in a year or so, they already do it for dependencies between projects.