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Re: The Bun Shell

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Post by ycuser2 » Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 7:52 AM UTC

lambda wrote: post #109

lucasyvas wrote: post #81

This looks exactly like zx by Google. And that's probably a good thing. https://github.com/google/zx

Being in the Google GitHub org doesn't mean "by Google", it means "by someone who works at Google."

But doesn't he get paid by Google to code this?

Re: The Bun Shell

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Post by pjmlp » Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 7:59 AM UTC

Perl and Python already went through this path without much uptake.

Re: The Bun Shell

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Post by Self-Perfection » Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 8:04 AM UTC

One of the selling points of this post is that bash is slow to start. But how fast is bun shell? Have anyone compared bash and bun shell start times?

Re: The Bun Shell

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Post by mjburgess » Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 8:06 AM UTC

fyi, the src: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/tree/main/src/shell

Re: The Bun Shell

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Post by SCUSKU » Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 8:10 AM UTC

leptons wrote: post #82

dumbo-octopus wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd argue the opposite: more computers have an end-user accessible JavaScript engine (a browser) than an end-user accessible shell.

It really depends on how you define "computer".

Let's not forget, "3 billion devices run Java"

Re: The Bun Shell

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Post by atorodius » Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 8:21 AM UTC

ycuser2 wrote: post #111

lambda wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being in the Google GitHub org doesn't mean "by Google", it means "by someone who works at Google."

But doesn't he get paid by Google to code this?

They do, otherwise it won’t be in that repo

Re: The Bun Shell

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Post by 8n4vidtmkvmk » Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 8:24 AM UTC

Jarred wrote: post #16

I work on Bun - happy to answer any questions/feedback

This is super cool, but can you fix bun -i so that it actually auto installs missing libs? That would really help with having self-contained scripts. Then I can finally start replacing my shell scripts with bun.

Re: The Bun Shell

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Post by simonjgreen » Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 8:27 AM UTC

Minor tangent, but plucked from that article, why is ‘rimraf’ downloaded 60m+ time a week?! Why is that a thing that need a library? (Asking as a systems guy, not a programmer)

Re: The Bun Shell

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Post by RadiozRadioz » Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 8:28 AM UTC

Great, it's approaching the ergonomics of what Perl has offered for decades. And Perl still does it better.

Re: The Bun Shell

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Post by httgp » Sun, Jan 21, 2024, 8:29 AM UTC

simonjgreen wrote: post #118

Minor tangent, but plucked from that article, why is ‘rimraf’ downloaded 60m+ time a week?! Why is that a thing that need a library? (Asking as a systems guy, not a programmer)

It’s quite often used in npm scripts to cleanup stuff (say, between builds), and many developers prefer that over native solutions like `rm` and `del` as it gives them a cross-platform way of cleaning up files and folders.