alt Hacker NewsBun has completely changed my outlook on the JS ecosystem. Prior to Bun, there was little focus on performance. Now the entire space rallies around it.
Congrats to Jarred and the team!
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satvikpendem • today at 7:01 PM
That's because it's not written in JS at all but a compiled systems language, no wonder it's gonna be fast.
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nailer • today at 6:32 PM
One important original point of node was that v8 made JS very fast by compiling to machine code, plus it’s had multithreading built in for a decade.
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stefan_ • today at 6:58 PM
That is the most absurd thing I've heard in 20 years. Chrome literally was launched on performance, for JS and beyond.
The reality is that the insane "JS ecosystem" will rally around whatever is the latest hotness.
> Prior to Bun, there was little focus on performance.
This is just completely insane. We went through more than a decade of performance competition in the JS VM space, and the _only_ justification that Google had for creating V8 was performance.
> The V8 engine was first introduced by Google in 2008, coinciding with the launch of the Google Chrome web browser. At the time, web applications were becoming increasingly complex, and there was a growing need for a faster, more efficient JavaScript engine. Google recognized this need and set out to create an engine that could significantly improve JavaScript performance.
I guess this is the time we live in. Vibe-coded projects get bought by vibe-coded companies and are congratulated in vibe-coded comments.