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1. Tiberi+m4[view] [source] 2025-12-02 18:26:27
>>ryanvo+(OP)
As someone who have been using Deno for the last few years, is there anything that Bun does better? Bun seems to use a different runtime (JSC) which is less tested than V8, which makes me assume it might perform worse in real-world tasks (maybe not anymore?). The last time I checked Bun's source code, it was... quite messy and spaghetti-like, plus Zig doesn't really offer many safety features, so it's not that hard to write incorrect code. Zig does force some safety with ReleaseSafe IIRC, but it's still not the same as even modern C++, let alone Rust.

I'll admit I'm somewhat biased against Bun, but I'm honestly interested in knowing why people prefer Bun over Deno.

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2. pjmlp+Af[view] [source] 2025-12-02 19:09:33
>>Tiberi+m4
Agreed, the language would be interesting during the 1990's, nowadays not so much.

The tools that the language offers to handle use after free is hardly any different from using Purify, Insure++ back in 2000.

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3. defen+Gk[view] [source] 2025-12-02 19:29:53
>>pjmlp+Af
I find comments like this fascinating, because you're implicitly evaluating a counterfactual where Bun was built with Rust (or some other "interesting" language). Maybe Bun would be better if it were built in Rust. But maybe it would have been slower (either at runtime or development speed) and not gotten far enough along to be acquired by one of the hottest companies in the world. There's no way to know. Why did Anthropic choose Bun instead of Deno, if Deno is written in a better language?
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