alt Hacker NewsI am getting into the frontend dev and one thing that I don't understand is why people use bun in the first place? It's not much better preforming, it's not much safer, it's still not 100% compliant. Some tests show it's actually slower than node. Why bother switching, then?
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frollogaston • last Sunday at 11:12 PM
So much of JS dev is just saying no to random new stuff, Bun included
johnny22 • last Sunday at 11:25 AM
i assume it's because of all the built in tooling that node doesn't ship with.
Faster package manager
Faster startup
Typescript support out of the box
Better stdlib than node
Stdlib includes yaml, sqlite etc so you need to pull in fewer deps, so you can avoid the left-pad/is-even node_modules explosion problem to a greater extent