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Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one

268 mentions on Hacker News by 204 people: 39 stories, 229 comments · first 2022-07-12 · latest 2026-10-24

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  1. …out there. [0]: https://github.com/waygate-io/fs-js [1]: https://github.com/waygate-io/http-js [2]: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/7057
    comment by apitman · 2024-03-01 · in JSR: The JavaScript Registry
  2. …like X (Twitter), Midjourney and Brex. Today we have over 2,000 issues open in our GitHub repo https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues , and while we love seeing people use Bun, it's clear that we need to grow the team to help make Bun more…
    comment by Jarred · 2024-02-02 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)
  3. fyi, the src: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/tree/main/src/shell
    comment by mjburgess · 2024-01-21 · in The Bun Shell
  4. Great point! According to https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/b433beb016470b87850f3c01... , Bun Shell took inspiration from zx[0], dax[1] and bnx[2] [0]: https://github.com/google/zx [1]: https://github.com/dsherret/dax [2]:…
    comment by nateb2022 · 2024-01-21 · in The Bun Shell
  5. doesn't work with Windows: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/43
    comment by 38 · 2024-01-21 · in The Bun Shell
  6. …and the API seems very similar to what is described in the post. Which bun also acknowledges here: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/main/docs/runtime/shell.... I suppose one significant difference is that bun reimplements shell…
    comment by neongreen · 2024-01-21 · in The Bun Shell
  7. Who needs Deno? When you have https://github.com/oven-sh/bun
    comment by bricss · 2023-12-05 · in Node.js/node at 99.9k GitHub Stars
  8. …of bugs, including segfaults and incompatibilities with node. After encountering bundler bugs like https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/6168 and https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/4216 , I stopped finding workarounds to get bun working.
    comment by AntonCTO · 2023-11-23 · in A Node, TypeScript, TS-Node and ESM experience that works
  9. …the same. - No type checking, as with many other tools. Also, filter their issue tracker for bugs: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen...
    comment by AntonCTO · 2023-11-22 · in A Node, TypeScript, TS-Node and ESM experience that works
  10. There are already long running issues on this topic. https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/2492
    comment by davidy123 · 2023-11-21 · in A Node, TypeScript, TS-Node and ESM experience that works
  11. The former, specifically Electron. Adding it to "trustedDependencies" didn't seem to help. https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/1588
    comment by fastball · 2023-10-24 · in Yarn 4.0
  12. …only implements the subset of async_hooks that can be implemented w/o affecting performance: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/3089 I haven't had a chance to test it out yet, but perhaps the OP could add Bun to the mix? To compare it's…
    comment by stephen · 2023-10-09 · in The Performance Cost of Node.js and GraphQL
  13. …[2]: https://github.com/nuejs/nuejs/blob/master/package.json#L12 [3]: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/discussions/1522
    comment by tipiirai · 2023-09-15 · in Show HN: Nue – A React/Vue/Vite/Astro Alternative
  14. Please file an isusue in https://github.com/oven-sh/bun and include the code to reproduce it
    comment by Jarred · 2023-09-08 · in Bun v1.0.0
  15. …work on CentOS7 due to glibc compatibility. Would be good to provide a more portable binary. [1] https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/releases/tag/bun-v1.0.0
    comment by attractivechaos · 2023-09-08 · in Bun v1.0.0
  16. …BTW A code formatter and a linter would be a great addition to bun. I know there is this ticket: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/discussions/712 But one of the advantages of integrating both things in bun is that it makes it the perfect…
    comment by psanchez · 2023-09-08 · in Bun v1.0.0
  17. Ok, changed from https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/releases/tag/bun-v1.0.0 .
    comment by dang · 2023-09-08 · in Bun v1.0.0
  18. Keep track of this issue: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/43 According to that, the speed benefits will probably not be as noticeable in windows.
    comment by hiccuphippo · 2023-09-08 · in Bun v1.0.0
  19. …is unfortunate, because that's by far the most interesting part! I've filed a doc bug on this. https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/4601
    comment by dfabulich · 2023-09-08 · in Bun v1.0.0
  20. I thought Bun had HRM out-of-the-box but it's not working? Not sure. https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/833
    comment by ggregoire · 2023-09-08 · in Bun v1.0.0
  21. …config) so maybe I'm missing something here. -- [1] https://bun.sh/guides/ecosystem/vite [2] https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/250
    comment by ggregoire · 2023-09-08 · in Bun v1.0.0
  22. Link to the github for anyone who is interested. https://github.com/oven-sh/bun
    comment by Cieric · 2023-09-07 · in Bun 1.0 announcement [video]
  23. …attractive? Why was "bun build ..." considered better or necessary when there is `bunx esbuild ...` https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/159 I like that it's trying to be a faster Node, and the better native database drivers etc. Having a…
    comment by 698969 · 2023-08-24 · in Bun v0.8
  24. https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/releases/expanded_assets/bun-... Wish there was a musl version.
    comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7 · 2023-08-24 · in Bun v0.8
  25. While not implemented, Bun may eventually have an alternative to Deno's sandboxing: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/discussions/725 "Rather than runtime permission checks (Deno's model) which could potentially have bugs that lead to…
    comment by kevlened · 2023-08-24 · in Bun v0.8
  26. ( FWIW, they are right, Bun the _runtime_ can use the npm module Vite. https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/250#issuecomment-16463... )
    comment by orta · 2023-08-24 · in Bun v0.8
  27. …So quite happy with the combo of Go (for servers) and Rust (for everything else backend). [1]: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/2443
    comment by shri_krishna · 2023-07-22 · in Bun v0.7.0
  28. Thanks. Reported here: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/3745 Update: the bug is likely due to Code Interpreter using a 4.4 kernel, which is 7 years old!
    comment by dave1010uk · 2023-07-22 · in Bun v0.7.0
  29. Going to https://github.com/oven-sh/bun It seems bun is: Zig 52.0% C++ 19.2% JavaScript 14.6% TypeScript 12.1% ... which is an interesting mix. I assume the JS is intended to be TS eventually or actually is right now. But why all the C++?
    comment by djoldman · 2023-07-22 · in Bun v0.7.0
  30. Check out the roadmap: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/159
    comment by tomnipotent · 2023-07-22 · in Bun v0.7.0
  31. …to AVA. I am currently one of the maintainers of Oletus. [1] https://bun.sh/docs/cli/test [2] https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/3158 [3] https://github.com/bearror/oletus
    comment by conaclos · 2023-07-01 · in Should you use Jest as a testing library? (2022)
  32. …https://github.com/tigerbeetledb/tigerbeetle/blob/main/build... https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/main/build.zig
    comment by kprotty · 2023-06-30 · in File for divorce from LLVM
  33. ICU :( https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/2541 https://twitter.com/jarredsumner/status/1616597667408404481
    comment by leeoniya · 2023-05-16 · in Bun 0.6
  34. …already being worked on as far as I know [1], excited to upgrade to Bun when that's available. [1] https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/43
    comment by freddex · 2023-05-16 · in Bun 0.6
  35. Bun does need glibc, but older glibc versions should work okay because of this: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/78229da76048e72aa4d92516... We haven't implemented polyfills for everything yet though, like Bun uses posix_spawn and…
    comment by Jarred · 2023-05-16 · in Bun 0.6
  36. …> Happy to take a look. That’s ok but let me bait and switch you for this dead socket leak issue: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/1397 In general, I’ve found that tons of projects suffer leaks. People don’t care about leaks :( (or…
    comment by klabb3 · 2023-04-03 · in 15k inserts/s with Rust and SQLite (2021)
  37. no Windows: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/43
    comment by 2h · 2023-02-25 · in Bun v0.5.7
  38. …other issue (likely related to that) is causing a crash in the test runner Can you file an issue on https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/new?assignees=&labels=... with sample code reproducing it? Happy to take a look
    comment by Jarred · 2023-02-25 · in Bun v0.5.7
  39. Indeed... https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/250
    comment by e12e · 2023-02-25 · in Bun v0.5.7
  40. …https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/25597#issuecomment-13... Source of Bun's homepage benchmark: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/9ef33312b1b199931c29c182...
    comment by Jarred · 2023-01-19 · in Bun v0.5
  41. Please add musl build here: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/releases/expanded_assets/bun-...
    comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7 · 2023-01-18 · in Bun v0.5
  42. …support for that yet (just A/AAAA via getaddrinfo()-like APIs currently) Tracking issue: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/1822
    comment by Jarred · 2023-01-18 · in Bun v0.5
  43. …but I believe bun's `bun bun` command is the best (only?) innovation trying to tackle this problem: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun#bun-bun I really should it try, my hope is that it's the "I am _immediately_ moving to bun" carrot that Deno…
    comment by stephen · 2023-01-16 · in Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem part 2 – Module Resolution
  44. …that feels there is "clout" to be had from it? (Spitballing here, I honestly don't know!) 0: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun 1: https://github.com/wasp-lang/wasp
    comment by freeqaz · 2022-12-30 · in Log4Shell Still Has Sting in the Tail
  45. ▲ 6
    Bun v0.4.0
    story by tosh · 2022-12-25 · 0 comments
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    Bun 0.4.0
    story by tosh · 2022-12-23 · 0 comments
  47. …on too new versions of glibc and dynamically load them or call some other implementation internally https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/main/src/bun.js/bindings...
    comment by Jarred · 2022-12-07 · in Bun 0.3
  48. …core repo, plus I'm greeted by wall of text again) and when I found it, the README is bare :( https://github.com/oven-sh/bun and bun.sh are pleasant reads for me. All of this is subjective and might turn be a turn-off for hardcore folks,…
    comment by klohto · 2022-11-27 · in Show HN: Yet Another Node.js Framework
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    Bun's Roadmap
    story by tosh · 2022-10-28 · 0 comments
  50. …post), has a native C interface that's far simpler to use than Python (even with pybind/nanobind): https://github.com/oven-sh/bun#bunffi-foreign-functions-inte... Deno (a v8-based runtime) has the same thing:…
    comment by brrrrrm · 2022-10-26 · in Python 3.11 is faster than 3.8