Comment by pjmlp
2 months ago
Bun, competition?
Zig is yet to be 1.0, and who knows what anthropic will make out of it.
They can even pivot yet again back into node, as most acquisitions go.
2 months ago
Bun, competition?
Zig is yet to be 1.0, and who knows what anthropic will make out of it.
They can even pivot yet again back into node, as most acquisitions go.
In the mindshare, certainly.
Bun to Deno is what Zig i to Rust: a much simpler, much easier way to overcome its common predecessor's shortcomings. Not nearly as thoroughly and revolutionarily, but still.
What matters is business users.
You know any services as big as X or Claude Code built with Deno?
AFAIK the biggest users of Deno are using their subhosting service (Netlify, Slack, etc) to allow third parties to execute TS code.
No, nor do I care, node is all that matters, long term.
Eventually like it usually happens, it will get the most relevant features and that is about it.
In the State of JS from last year Bun had a 21% market share.
https://2025.stateofjs.com/en-US/other-tools/#runtimes
Double from Deno even though it released years earlier.
I'm sure Node will remain the top runtime for years to come... but not paying attention to what Bun is doing is like burying your head in the sand.