Bun 1.0 announcement [video]

#1

Post by chinmaykunkikar » Thu, Sep 07, 2023, 5:08 PM UTC

Bun 1.0 announcement [video]
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Re: Bun 1.0 announcement [video]

#2

Post by leejoramo » Thu, Sep 07, 2023, 5:27 PM UTC

I played with Bun around a year ago. Looked promising, but was not an easy drop in replacement for nodejs in my projects. I don’t recall the issues and give Bun’s beta state I didn’t give it much effort.

Now that 1.0 is out I will give it another try. I could see myself migrating to it within a year if Bun’s performance and developer usability claims are justified

Re: Bun 1.0 announcement [video]

#3

Post by j-pb » Thu, Sep 07, 2023, 5:54 PM UTC

Despite the 1.0 release tag, given that it's written in Zig, which is super duper Alpha, I'd trust it only as far as I can throw a floppy with its source code.

Re: Bun 1.0 announcement [video]

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Post by nifty_beaks » Thu, Sep 07, 2023, 5:58 PM UTC

j-pb wrote: post #3

Despite the 1.0 release tag, given that it's written in Zig, which is super duper Alpha, I'd trust it only as far as I can throw a floppy with its source code.

I completely forgot it was written in Zig. Thanks for the heads up. I completely agree, I don't see how this can be labeled 1.0 release.

Re: Bun 1.0 announcement [video]

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Post by c-hendricks » Thu, Sep 07, 2023, 6:14 PM UTC

j-pb wrote: post #3

Despite the 1.0 release tag, given that it's written in Zig, which is super duper Alpha, I'd trust it only as far as I can throw a floppy with its source code.

I'd imagine a floppy would fly quite far when thrown like a frisbee tho

Re: Bun 1.0 announcement [video]

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Post by trebor » Thu, Sep 07, 2023, 6:17 PM UTC

Bun is a very nice runtime. I played with it for several hours, and was impressed by how snappy it feels.

Re: Bun 1.0 announcement [video]

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Post by gfodor » Thu, Sep 07, 2023, 6:17 PM UTC

j-pb wrote: post #3

Despite the 1.0 release tag, given that it's written in Zig, which is super duper Alpha, I'd trust it only as far as I can throw a floppy with its source code.

Fascinating, do you have literally any evidence whatsoever that this project doesn't work or isn't realiable?

Re: Bun 1.0 announcement [video]

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Post by dudus » Thu, Sep 07, 2023, 6:19 PM UTC

j-pb wrote: post #3

Despite the 1.0 release tag, given that it's written in Zig, which is super duper Alpha, I'd trust it only as far as I can throw a floppy with its source code.

Why would it matter to you as a user, which language it was used before it was compiled to the machine code you run?

Re: Bun 1.0 announcement [video]

#9

Post by CharlesW » Thu, Sep 07, 2023, 6:22 PM UTC

Why are we wasting time saying "Bun runtime" when "Buntime" is right there?

The video is well done, and I'm fascinated that it's built on WebKit instead of V8. Good luck, Bun.team()!

Re: Bun 1.0 announcement [video]

#10

Post by phillipcarter » Thu, Sep 07, 2023, 6:22 PM UTC

Really excited by this! Between Bun, Deno, and obviously Node, there's some serious innovation happening in the non-browser JS world.