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Re: Bun’s New Crash Reporter

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Post by vvpan »

numbers wrote: post #6
vvpan wrote: post #3

So, anybody using Bun? Does it live up to hype?

oh yeah, it's amazing! The speed is great but just the DX is so much nicer than npm, yarn, or node itself. It took us a few tries to getting it working for our prod environments, but nothing we couldn't figure out within the same day. I thought having a binary for a lock file was weird (don't know the technical reasons behind it besides maybe speed) but after using it for months now, it never has caused an issue for…

Thanks for the feedback. What kind of product are you using it for? Any issues with library compatibility?

Re: Bun’s New Crash Reporter

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Post by yieldcrv »

vvpan wrote: post #3

So, anybody using Bun? Does it live up to hype?

using it on all my side projects, some of which made it to production. some of which had lots of dependencies in the past and seamlessly switched over

one employer/client has a big project I'm afraid to attempt changing anything on, but I wonder

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Post by fellowniusmonk »

M4v3R wrote: post #10
vvpan wrote: post #3

So, anybody using Bun? Does it live up to hype?

Started using it as soon as they hit 1.0 and never looked back, we’re implementing it in every project now.

Bun + uwebsocket cut my server costs and requirements significantly for my websocket app. It's a real delight to work with.

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Post by basil-rash »

vvpan wrote: post #3

So, anybody using Bun? Does it live up to hype?

It’s good unless you want a repl (they pretend to have one but it’s miserable: >6s latency all the time when it updates), or you plan to use any native modules. The error messages are also significantly worse than node’s. I used it for a bit, but node with ‘—loader tsx’ does everything I want nowadays with none of the downside. If I was building a simple server, perhaps with websockets, and I was sure it need native modules, I’d consider using Bun. I have several such services live now actually.

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Post by Stoids »

vvpan wrote: post #3

So, anybody using Bun? Does it live up to hype?

I have not used it in production yet, but it's been great for one-off scripts and side projects. Setting up a TypeScript Node environment with ts-node, ts-jest, ESM support, top level await, etc. is more annoying than it should be. More recent Node releases have alleviated some of this pain, but not as trivial as running bun init.

I've enjoyed using the bun shell [1] API.

[1] https://bun.sh/blog/the-bun-shell

Re: Bun’s New Crash Reporter

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Post by Alupis »

fellowniusmonk wrote: post #13
M4v3R wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Started using it as soon as they hit 1.0 and never looked back, we’re implementing it in every project now.

Bun + uwebsocket cut my server costs and requirements significantly for my websocket app. It's a real delight to work with.

How did it cut your server costs - increased performance and therefore reduced load?

Bun looks quite promising, but I've heard mixed feedback on it being a "drop in" replacement of node. Any experience with that aspect?

Re: Bun’s New Crash Reporter

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Post by nikita »

Microsoft is really good at this BTW. At SQL Server we had mini dumps they were tiny stripped out of personal info and incredibly useful. And a full dump of a production SQL Server even at that time (15 years ago) would be a huge file - too big to move around.

Re: Bun’s New Crash Reporter

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Post by tredre3 »

Did you know that bun needs to download 37 packages before the repl becomes available? No internet no repl for you.

    PS C:\Users\anon> bun repl
       bun-repl [6/6]
    error: FailedToOpenSocket downloading package manifest bun-repl
    error: bun-repl@latest failed to resolve
Not a big deal, but I was expecting (and frankly excited) to have a single no-install executable to drop in my PATH and have it just work!
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