Bun JS - Thoughts so far
Hello there. Isaac here. So over the weekend I've been trying out Bun for a school project (a simple Koa API server from scratch). I didn't really have a project on hand I could benchmark against to compare Bun to Node. Any speed difference I felt could've just been placebo, really. I do enjoy using Bun though even if we disregard the speed part, but I wouldn't say that Bun is good enough to warrant replacing my existing projects using Node. Most of the pros I experienced boils down to convenience. Bun has many features bundled with it that would've taken some time to install using Node. Below is a list of said features and packages I would've needed to install in Node: Running TypeScript files ts-node typescript (Ended up installing it anyway for linting) Hot reload nodemon Running tests jest (I've only used mocha before, but I assume it's more similar to jest ) Password hashing argon2 (Never used this either) bcrypt Watching tests (Never attempt