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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. bodge5+0Y[view] [source] 2025-12-02 22:45:07
>>Tiberi+m4
I really want to like Deno and will likely try it again, but last time I did it was just a bit of a pain anytime I wanted to use something built for npm (which is most packages out there), whereas bun didn't have that problem.

There's certainly an argument to be made that, like any good tool, you have to learn Deno and can't fall back on just reusing node knowledge, and I'd absolutely agree with that, but in that case I wanted to learn the package, not the package manager.

Edit: Also it has a nice standard library, not a huge win because that stuff is also doable in Deno, but again, its just a bit less painless

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