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Bun seems to be all the rage that people are talking about. In your (and others) experiences, has it been better than all the individual tools that it aims to r
by tavavex 8mo ago
Bun seems to be all the rage that people are talking about. In your (and others) experiences, has it been better than all the individual tools that it aims to replace? Do you expect it to stay around for a long time?
Also it seems very tightly connected to AI projects - many AI things seem to feature it, and 2/3 projects they show off on their landing page are AI-related. Is it just because this is what's popular in the field right now, or does Bun do something that AI devs specifically really like?
- rcarmo 8mo agoI started using it _way_ before it was even mentioned in AI projects. The key reasons I stuck with it were: 1. As a Pythonista, I _very_ much like its batteries included philosophy (I get proper Typescript, SQLite and a lot of goodies out of the box without hundreds of crufty NPM plugins) and 2. The tooling is awesome: a decent bundler, ability to build "single file" executables, etc. If you think it's popular because of AI, think again.
- tavavex 8mo agoI didn't say I thought it was popular because of AI. I clarified whether this mental link could be faulty because a lot of new projects are AI-related in general. I might give it a shot soon. Would you recommend it for simpler all-in-one web projects that don't utilize most of the vast array of tools it includes? Or is it more suited to the heavy-weights?
- rcarmo 8mo agoIt's great for small things.