logoalt Hacker News

mi_lkyesterday at 7:04 PM5 repliesview on HN

> Bun has had an extremely high amount of crashes/memory bugs

Any stats/source? Not that I think it's false

> and the ugly parts look uglier (unsafe) which encourages refactoring.

Looks like Bun owes that to itself to some extent, not solely because of the language


Replies

dminikyesterday at 8:03 PM

Not that it's a particularly accurate stat, but:

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3...

119 open, 885 closed

https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state...

10 open, 46 closed

dmdyesterday at 7:24 PM

You want a better source than the actual author of Bun?

show 1 reply
enricozbyesterday at 7:08 PM

I believe the author is the creator of Bun.

show 1 reply
afavouryesterday at 7:16 PM

FTA:

> why: I am so tired of worrying about & spending lots of time fixing memory leaks and crashes and stability issues. it would be so nice if the language provided more powerful tools for preventing these things.

Not a hard number obviously but a clear indication those issues exist.

show 1 reply
Ygg2yesterday at 7:14 PM

If you look at percent of segfault errors in each repo, Bun had a much larger percent. Although don't quote on me.