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I am shocked by how good and comprehensive the bun docs & ecosystem is. Its so well contained I never need to look outside its ecosystem for basic components.

by asxndu 4mo ago

I am shocked by how good and comprehensive the bun docs & ecosystem is. Its so well contained I never need to look outside its ecosystem for basic components. It's a true "Batteries Included" runtime.

Retr0id 4mo ago
Last time I read the bun docs I spotted an off-by-one bug in sample code, so I opened a github issue. An AI bot responded, confirming the issue, and opened a PR to fix it - A simple "+ 1" added in the right place. Two other AI bots reviewed the PR, which went on for several rounds of "improvements". Last time I checked, neither the issue nor the PR received any human attention (actually I just checked again, and the PR has been closed by stalebot).
- Aurornis 4mo ago
  > (actually I just checked again, and the PR has been closed by stalebot). Can you provide the link?
  - Delgan 4mo ago
    I, too, was curious to see it in practice. Here is the ticket opened by @retr0id: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/28030 https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/28030 And here is the swarm of bots / LLMs / agents that open, review and bikeshed the PR before it's closed by the stalebot: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/28031 https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/28031 It's hilarious. But also a little sad.
    - Retr0id 4mo ago
      Yup, that's the one.
      - Phelinofist 4mo ago
        That's pure comedy
    - skeledrew 4mo ago
      Why sad?
      - Retr0id 3mo ago
        It's a bizarre simulation of what would normally be a social interaction, and the (minor) effort I put in on my end just went into a black hole.
        skeledrew 3mo ago
        I see. I'm kinda wondering, did something break in the process? Or was it missing a human to do the final check and merge?
    - dgellow 4mo ago
      Ok, you didn’t lie, it’s extremely funny, the stalebot at the end is such a good punchline!
  - tomjakubowski 4mo ago
    Here's a trivial docs issue I opened, where I had a similar experience: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/31233 https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/31233 The difference is that the PRs to fix that problem were already open when I created the issue. I was unaware of them (I only searched for duplicate issues, not PRs addressing the problem). The robobun comment implies there are 5 open PRs addressing it, but I could only find two. They still haven't been merged, a month later. https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30677 https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30677 <-- later rolled up into: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30747 https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30747
    - anematode 3mo ago
      Utter dysfunction. I ripped out bun from my projects after the vibe Rust rewrite, but seems like the problem has existed much longer...
- asxndu 4mo ago
  Was the bug actualy soved?
  - masklinn 4mo ago
    No, it was closed as stale.
jvidalv 4mo ago
Bun is so good that can’t be used as server and only as local script runner. https://discord.com/channels/876711213126520882/1480589657983942696 https://discord.com/channels/876711213126520882/148058965798... Leaks memory left and right. And the core team seems unable to fix it.
fg137 4mo ago
Yet I rarely hear about it being used in production systems and replacing Node.js.
- doodlesdev 4mo ago
  It famously is extremely memory leaky, with the core team having no idea how to fix it. With the new AI-automated unsafe Rust migration, this piece of slop may never actually become production-ready.
- tomjakubowski 4mo ago
  From what I've heard there are two main use cases: - People use bun as an all-in-one frontend web bundler. Personally, I just use esbuild (and webpack, if I'm working on a system using its module federation, like Jupyterlab). My understanding is bun has a machine-translated port of esbuild (ported to Zig, then to Rust) built into it. - Claude Code runs on bun. The second point has to be why Anthropic acquired them.
  - cozzyd 3mo ago
    Somehow claude-cli left open completely nerfs my laptop's battery life. Is this a bun feature?
- egorfine 4mo ago
  I run it in production for multiple systems. Ready to migrate back to node once the slop version is out.
  - dgellow 4mo ago
    Why not deno?
    - egorfine 3mo ago
      I'm not sure deno has a future.

by asxndu 4mo ago

Retr0id 4mo ago

Last time I read the bun docs I spotted an off-by-one bug in sample code, so I opened a github issue. An AI bot responded, confirming the issue, and opened a PR to fix it - A simple "+ 1" added in the right place. Two other AI bots reviewed the PR, which went on for several rounds of "improvements". Last time I checked, neither the issue nor the PR received any human attention (actually I just checked again, and the PR has been closed by stalebot).

Aurornis 4mo ago
> (actually I just checked again, and the PR has been closed by stalebot). Can you provide the link?
- Delgan 4mo ago
  I, too, was curious to see it in practice. Here is the ticket opened by @retr0id: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/28030 https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/28030 And here is the swarm of bots / LLMs / agents that open, review and bikeshed the PR before it's closed by the stalebot: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/28031 https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/28031 It's hilarious. But also a little sad.
  - Retr0id 4mo ago
    Yup, that's the one.
    - Phelinofist 4mo ago
      That's pure comedy
  - skeledrew 4mo ago
    Why sad?
    - Retr0id 3mo ago
      It's a bizarre simulation of what would normally be a social interaction, and the (minor) effort I put in on my end just went into a black hole.
      - skeledrew 3mo ago
        I see. I'm kinda wondering, did something break in the process? Or was it missing a human to do the final check and merge?
  - dgellow 4mo ago
    Ok, you didn’t lie, it’s extremely funny, the stalebot at the end is such a good punchline!
- tomjakubowski 4mo ago
  Here's a trivial docs issue I opened, where I had a similar experience: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/31233 https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/31233 The difference is that the PRs to fix that problem were already open when I created the issue. I was unaware of them (I only searched for duplicate issues, not PRs addressing the problem). The robobun comment implies there are 5 open PRs addressing it, but I could only find two. They still haven't been merged, a month later. https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30677 https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30677 <-- later rolled up into: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30747 https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30747
  - anematode 3mo ago
    Utter dysfunction. I ripped out bun from my projects after the vibe Rust rewrite, but seems like the problem has existed much longer...
asxndu 4mo ago
Was the bug actualy soved?
- masklinn 4mo ago
  No, it was closed as stale.

jvidalv 4mo ago

Bun is so good that can’t be used as server and only as local script runner. https://discord.com/channels/876711213126520882/1480589657983942696 https://discord.com/channels/876711213126520882/148058965798... Leaks memory left and right. And the core team seems unable to fix it.

fg137 4mo ago

Yet I rarely hear about it being used in production systems and replacing Node.js.

doodlesdev 4mo ago
It famously is extremely memory leaky, with the core team having no idea how to fix it. With the new AI-automated unsafe Rust migration, this piece of slop may never actually become production-ready.
tomjakubowski 4mo ago
From what I've heard there are two main use cases: - People use bun as an all-in-one frontend web bundler. Personally, I just use esbuild (and webpack, if I'm working on a system using its module federation, like Jupyterlab). My understanding is bun has a machine-translated port of esbuild (ported to Zig, then to Rust) built into it. - Claude Code runs on bun. The second point has to be why Anthropic acquired them.
- cozzyd 3mo ago
  Somehow claude-cli left open completely nerfs my laptop's battery life. Is this a bun feature?
egorfine 4mo ago
I run it in production for multiple systems. Ready to migrate back to node once the slop version is out.
- dgellow 4mo ago
  Why not deno?
  - egorfine 3mo ago
    I'm not sure deno has a future.