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What is Bun? The New JS Runtime

Jul 25, 2022 · 23 min
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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about Bun, a new all-in-one JavaScript runtime. What makes Bun so fast? What’s on Bun’s roadmap? And why do we need another JavaScript runtime?

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Show Notes
  • 00:23 Welcome
  • 01:21 Sponsor: Freshbooks
  • 02:07 Sponsor: Lightstep Incident Response
  • 03:20 What is Bun?
  • Bun
  • Deno
  • 08:20 Why is Bun so fast?
  • Zig
  • 12:32 Module support
  • 15:11 What’s not implemented yet in Bun?
  • What’s not implemented in Bun yet
  • 17:01 Config file in toml
  • 18:08 Bun roadmap
  • Bun roadmap
  • 20:27 Why do we need another JavaScript environment?
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