alt Hacker Newsfwiw before today I'd heard of Zig and not Bun :D
something JS-adjacent could certainly be more known than an obscure language but are that many people using drop-in node replacements?
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Dylan16807 • today at 4:35 AM
fwiw I knew about both but I had no idea Bun was written in Zig.
alt runtimes are still pretty niche, but deno and bun do have some degree of adoption. For Bun, the runtime is actually sometimes perceived as unwanted baggage, (eg a consulting client of mine wanted to pursue bun for its build tooling but had no interest in changing the runtime). IMHO, node (with Vite and PNPM) is the right call for the vast majority.