Seems like a good release
Seems like a good release. I watched their video, and some charts were a bit unclear, as in, I didn't know if they were comparing with the previous Bun version or Node.js. My experience with using Bun in side projects has been good. The built-in APIs work well in my experience, and I hope popular runtimes adopt at least a subset of them. The hashing and the SQLite bindings come to mind as APIs that I wish were available in Deno and Node.js as well. They collect some telemetry by default. I don't think the install script tells you that. The only mention of it that I've found is in the Bunfile documentation: https://bun.sh/docs/runtime/bunfig#telemetry I'd prefer if it was opt-in, and that users were given instructions for disabling it if they want to during installation. They offer an option to create a dependency-free executable for your project, which bundles the runtime with your .js entrypoint. That works great if you want a single binary to distribute to users, but at the moment, the file size is still pretty big (above 90MB on GNU/Linux for a small project). …
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