alt Hacker NewsI don't really understand what the value proposition of Bun and Deno is. And I see huge problems with their governance and long-term sustainability.
Node.js on the other hand is not owned or controlled by one entity. It is not beholden to the whims of investors or a large corporation. I have contributed to Node.js in the past and I was really impressed by its rock-solid governance model and processes. I think this an under-appreciated feature when evaluating tech options.
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If one gets nothing from them directly, they've at least been a good kick to get several features into Node. It's almost like neovim was to vim, perhaps to a lesser extent.
Note that Bun was recently acquired by Anthropic.
Faster, no transpilation, dev-ex sugar.
I agree about the governance and long-term sustainability points but if you don't see any value in Bun or Deno is probably because (no offense) you are not paying attention.
Deno has some pretty nice unique features like sandboxing that, afaik, don't exist in other runtimes (yet). It's enough of a draw that it's the recommended runtime for projects like yt-dlp: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404