>and to me Bun was less interesting because a.) it seemed like a much-less-ambitious Deno
I don't know, I've followed Deno, and it appeared to me an incredibly low ambition from the get go.
I don't know, I've followed Deno, and it appeared to me an incredibly low ambition from the get go.
What I was specifically referring to is Deno (originally) trying to fix the (glaring, fundamental) problems that Node imposes on the world, vs just do them faster.
And to offer a counter example, something like Dart appeared much more ambitious to me.
Though if you look relative to the team size and resources going into it, a project like Deno can still be considered ambitious. Creating an alternative ecosystem to nodejs is a large undertaking.
Surely we can agree that one of those positions is relatively less ambitious?
The business value the Bun team needed to deliver (to make the acquisition pay out) might very well be this controversial, but nevertheless spectacular, 6-day Zig→Rust port.
But beyond that, now Bun is just tooling used internally at Anthropic, which also happens to be open-source.
Certainly the recent layoffs¹ of ~half-or-so of the Deno team doesn't bode well for it, as AFAIK Bun was the only other significant player trying (to make it a business).
¹: https://www.reddit.com/r/Deno/comments/1rwjaeb/whats_going_o...