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Re: Oven: The Company Behind Bun

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Post by latenightcoding »

"Oven, the company behind Bun, has raised $7m in funding"

"Oven will provide incredibly fast serverless hosting & continuous integration for backend & frontend JavaScript apps"

Isn't trying to dethrone node.js (by making Bun better and more popular) something worth pursuing on its own, or there is no money in that?

Re: Oven: The Company Behind Bun

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Post by eatonphil »

latenightcoding wrote: post #3

"Oven, the company behind Bun, has raised $7m in funding" "Oven will provide incredibly fast serverless hosting & continuous integration for backend & frontend JavaScript apps" Isn't trying to dethrone node.js (by making Bun better and more popular) something worth pursuing on its own, or there is no money in that?

It doesn't seem like they're going far from the Deno playbook.

https://deno.com/blog/series-a

Re: Oven: The Company Behind Bun

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Post by brundolf »

latenightcoding wrote: post #3

"Oven, the company behind Bun, has raised $7m in funding" "Oven will provide incredibly fast serverless hosting & continuous integration for backend & frontend JavaScript apps" Isn't trying to dethrone node.js (by making Bun better and more popular) something worth pursuing on its own, or there is no money in that?

Yes, there is literally no money in doing that by itself. I don't blame the developers for doing what's needed to fund the project.

Re: Oven: The Company Behind Bun

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Post by solardev »

latenightcoding wrote: post #3

"Oven, the company behind Bun, has raised $7m in funding" "Oven will provide incredibly fast serverless hosting & continuous integration for backend & frontend JavaScript apps" Isn't trying to dethrone node.js (by making Bun better and more popular) something worth pursuing on its own, or there is no money in that?

Isn't that what they're doing? Providing a monetizable system around open source software. It's the Vercel/Next.js model

Re: Oven: The Company Behind Bun

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Post by brrrrrm »

Congrats to Jarred! Bun has blown me away in terms of performance. Often (in other projects) performance claims out of nowhere are simply cherry-picked but I’ve found bun repeatedly impressing me with both speed and elegance.

What doesn’t get mentioned enough is just how friggin ergonomic bun is. Install it and you’ll see what I mean immediately. Play with any API in the “bun:” namespace and it’s just a breath of fresh air.

Re: Oven: The Company Behind Bun

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Post by behnamoh »

I love these funny names. First time I introduced HomeBrew to my gf, she was all laughing at the funny terms:

   keg - Program binaries created from source

   bottle - Program binaries downloaded

   cellar - Directory where kegs / binaries are stored

   tap - git repository

   cask - macos native binary (not used in Linux)

Re: Oven: The Company Behind Bun

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Post by verdverm »

brrrrrm wrote: post #7

Congrats to Jarred! Bun has blown me away in terms of performance. Often (in other projects) performance claims out of nowhere are simply cherry-picked but I’ve found bun repeatedly impressing me with both speed and elegance. What doesn’t get mentioned enough is just how friggin ergonomic bun is. Install it and you’ll see what I mean immediately. Play with any API in the “bun:” namespace and it’s just a breath of fre…

I'm curious if it will be as fast after implementing some must have features like sourcemaps, minification, and tree shaking? Bun is definitely not production ready yet, but I'm keeping my eye on it for sure

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun#not-implemented-yet

Re: Oven: The Company Behind Bun

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Post by brundolf »

brrrrrm wrote: post #7

Congrats to Jarred! Bun has blown me away in terms of performance. Often (in other projects) performance claims out of nowhere are simply cherry-picked but I’ve found bun repeatedly impressing me with both speed and elegance. What doesn’t get mentioned enough is just how friggin ergonomic bun is. Install it and you’ll see what I mean immediately. Play with any API in the “bun:” namespace and it’s just a breath of fre…

I'm curious about where all that performance comes from

I know it uses the WebKit JS runtime instead of V8, which is super interesting. Does that cause a performance lift? Or is there some other secret sauce that pervades throughout Bun? Or is it just a matter of Jarred giving lots of attention to spot-optimizing the most important bottlenecks outside of the core runtime?

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