Some *real* benchmarks on Bun (compared with Node) -- It only wins *sometimes*, but it's mostly a fail - eviltoast
DO NOT USE BUN (bun install is good dough)
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00:00 Bun is here00:31 porting to Bun01:05 log import perf02:40 MariaDB perf03:21 reporting perf03:50 bun install on dev06:14 macOS disk usage06:37 bun insta...

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Great watch but to summarize:

  • Bun beats Node/Yarn for package installation

  • Somewhat better API/DX in some ways.

  • Loses poorly in testing performance

  • Tons of incompatibility issues/performance issues in other areas.

General summary: Just don’t use Bun yet, seems like it needs some more time in the oven.

  • lorefnon@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Build times in nodejs are not so great in even medium size projects if you make heavy usage of advanced typescript features - either yourself or through libraries like zod. So if something makes the nodejs runtime faster, it could potentially make ts compiler faster too - for which I’d be very grateful.