alt Hacker NewsWhat makes Bun Bun is all the things that got removed from this project. Node is already powerful enough and well maintained. Why would anyone use this?
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allthetime • today at 3:39 PM
Compiling to a single binary for prod is the killer feature imo.
dgellow • today at 7:31 AM
> The main design decision is to treat this as a runtime, not a general-purpose Bun replacement. A minimal launcher loads a pre-built entrypoint; features that require package installation, bundling, TypeScript transformation, or bun test are intentionally outside the scope.
The author is saying explicitly they don’t want to make a Bun replacement
andai • today at 7:46 AM
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The developer is quite clear about not wanting to make Bun. They want to make a reusable JavaScript runtime for Zig. How would you execute a Node runtime in Zig?