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Bun v0.5.7

by computing on 2/24/23, 10:59 PM with 77 comments

  • by Jarred on 2/24/23, 11:12 PM

    I work on Bun. Happy to answer questions

  • by sroussey on 2/25/23, 7:34 AM

    How does Bun’s GC work?

    I have a CLI ghat does some processing and Bun used all the memory and pushed me deep into swap on a 64gb ram machine. I added some Bun.sleep(1) in the some loops to give the GC more time but that didn’t help much.

  • by korginator on 2/25/23, 3:06 AM

    It would help to say a few words in the submission about what bun is supposed to be and why anyone should care. The name sounds like a recipe app or something for my culinary experience.

    From the docs [1], "Bun is an all-in-one toolkit for JavaScript and TypeScript apps. It ships as a single executable called bun ."

    [1] https://bun.sh/docs

  • by thedumbname on 2/25/23, 2:24 AM

    Is it expected to work in the real world? I don't think so

    % bun test bun test v0.5.7 (5929daee)

    17 | expect([...] ^ error: Not implemented

    error: Unexpected ? ?PNG ^ [...]/a.png:1:1 0

    zsh: segmentation fault bun test

  • by 0ldT1m3r on 2/25/23, 5:50 AM

    I've been trying to get bundling working with bun without success using `bun bun`. It just crashes or hangs. Is there an way to get bun to work like `esbuild --bundle` ?

  • by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on 2/25/23, 3:48 AM

    Any news on musl support?

    Jarred previously mentioned it was worth a look: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34431432

  • by IshKebab on 2/25/23, 9:09 AM

    How does Bun compare to Deno? I guess that's their main competition?

  • by cyclecity on 2/25/23, 1:12 AM

    Also, bun has docs now: https://bun.sh/docs

  • by turbobooster on 2/25/23, 2:38 PM

    I'm concerned with how much debt they have and if they don't pay it back. Deno seems safer.

  • by 2h on 2/25/23, 6:39 AM

  • by itslennysfault on 2/25/23, 1:09 AM

    I was really excited about Bun when it first launched and even joined the early beta and it blows the doors off most other options (webpack) for sure.

    However, I've discovered Vite since then, and I know it's not a 1:1 comparison, but Vite is much more mature, and does everything I need and is incredibly user friendly and plenty fast enough for me. I kinda feel like Bun missed its moment already. Someone convince me otherwise please. I'm loving Vite it's a huge step up from Webpack, and isn't leaving me wanting for anything more.