Comment by asutekku

20 hours ago

Bun is much much more lighter than node or deno. If you don't mind the controversy around the rust rewrite, it's objectively the better option in most cases.

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nananana9  19 hours ago

A month before the rewrite I was hitting soundness bugs on fairly trivial JS code. I remember right, under HMR re-exports of module variables caused a snapshot, and importers of the reexport saw stale values.

I reported it, watched robobun write an unhinged +300 -0 patch which quickly got LGTM'd and merged.

I hope now that we've moved past AGI and into the ASI era things are better.

lobofta  17 hours ago

I made a fairly straight forward webapp with Bun and let Claude check whether it was actually better than Node. Nope, Node consumed less memory and used about the same CPU as Bun. I didn't switch, because it costs tokens, but Node's reputation seem to be based on its legacy more than on today's use.

jazzypants  12 hours ago

"much much more lighter"? What does that even mean?

  • nchmy  11 hours ago

    You know exactly what it means. You're just being a pedantic ass to someone for whom English is not their first language

    Ps to the original poster. I screw things like this up in my 2nd language all the time.

    "more" and "-er" are sort of redundant. You could say

    More light (but this is just awkward - you'd just say lighter).

    Much lighter gives an extra degree of lightness than lighter.

    Much much lighter even moreso. There's nothing wrong with saying it like this in an informal context like this, but it would generally be better to use words like significantly, vastly, enormously, slightly, a bit, considerably etc to modify the degree of "lighter"

    Any LLM could explain the nuances of all of this in much much more detail (this actually makes sense, because detail is not -er).

    English is difficult, but dont let that stop you - it is easy to communicate effectively with even a low degree of proficiency, when the other person is acting in good faith.