Some *real* benchmarks on Bun (compared with Node) -- It only wins *sometimes*, but it's mostly a fail

MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works to Programming@programming.dev – 100 points – DO NOT USE BUN (bun install is good dough)
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Great watch but to summarize:

  • Bun beats Node/Yarn for package installation

  • Somewhat better API/DX in some ways.

  • Loses poorly in testing performance

  • Tons of incompatibility issues/performance issues in other areas.

General summary: Just don't use Bun yet, seems like it needs some more time in the oven.

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Am I wrong to think that if you are REALLY crippled by the "slow speed" of node, you just shouldn't be using JS from the beginning?

In my opinion, any advancement is worthwhile, even if current consensus is that it’s over-optimization. And if it starts tying up its loose ends, it’ll no doubt benefit node developers as well. Healthy competition and all that.

I’m with you on that. I’ve built dozens and dozens of node apps both professionally and for personal projects and yeah maybe the package installs could be faster, but the overall performance of the server has also been pretty good. If node is slow for you, maybe there’s some other optimizations to be made rather than switching the next new things as a solution.