The promise of Bun seems pretty good, but I think their marketing material is further along than their core projects atm.
The promise of Bun seems pretty good, but I think their marketing material is further along than their core projects atm.
There was discussion about this the other day. It's marketed as a "drop-in" replacement but from perusing HN and elsewhere I see people having issues with real projects. It looks like a promising project, which I hope succeeds, but there also seems to be an unfortunate amount of marketing that, as you note, is being uncritically repeated.
I would consider it only for backend nodejs at the moment.
I think people are surprised that the performance claims don’t completely disappear with real world scenarios. It seems like a lot of eventually successful platforms began in the same way: the claims about improvements are real, and there are still a lot of rough edges.