Bun JS - should I use it?!
Bun is a new javascript runtime, that claims to be faster (in both development and runtime) and provide a better developer experience than node.js. It has plenty of built in features for the most common use cases, such as running a web server - http or web socket, work with filesystem, test runner, hot reload, browser apis, and it even supports Typescript and JSX out of the box.
It is compatible with node.js and npm, so you can migrate your node.js project to bun with minimal changes required. But it doesn’t mean you should immediately switch from good old node to bun in your production projects - bun is still under development. But I think it looks promising and worth trying even on this early stage. Also note, that only bun runtime is available for Windows at the moment, and other commands such as
bun test
bun install/add/remove
bun link/unlink
bun build
are disabled.
But who cares - most of us who works on enterprise windows machines, uses WSL anyway.