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_sinelaw_ • yesterday at 9:32 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Anthropic Bun? :) I didn't realize it was an engine as well. I can take a look but we should wait and see where the acquisition takes it

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20after4 • yesterday at 10:25 PM

"Bun is a new JavaScript runtime built from scratch to serve the modern JavaScript ecosystem. It has three major design goals:

    Speed. Bun starts fast and runs fast. It extends JavaScriptCore, the performance-minded JS engine built for Safari. Fast start times mean fast apps and fast APIs.
    Elegant APIs. Bun provides a minimal set of highly-optimized APIs for performing common tasks, like starting an HTTP server and writing files.
    Cohesive DX. Bun is a complete toolkit for building JavaScript apps, including a package manager, test runner, and bundler.
Bun is designed as a drop-in replacement for Node.js. It natively implements thousands of Node.js and Web APIs, including fs, path, Buffer and more."

- From the homepage[1] - it's a shame they use semantic html but no anchors for direct linking.

1. https://bun.com/

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20after4 • yesterday at 10:29 PM

"Bun itself is MIT-licensed. JavaScriptCore Bun statically links JavaScriptCore (and WebKit) which is LGPL-2 licensed. WebCore files from WebKit are also licensed under LGPL2."

License compatible, probably safe from a rug pull?

wg0 • yesterday at 11:31 PM

Yes but I believe it would be a safe and lighter choice. The rug pull on deno is more imminent than elsewhere.

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