What is Bun? The New JS Runtime

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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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