Why do people use bun? Would like an answer from an actual experienced / staff tier or higher engineer.

sroussey 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Simplicity.

bun file.ts

And it’s been this way for years.

Don’t care about what’s in a package.json file or if there is one. Can do this without tsconfig file as well.

	▲	MoonWalk 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		How is that better than Deno?

bel8 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm no staff+, but the tooling (package manager and TypeScript runner) is very fast.

bun run is <1s for my projects, while watching for file changes. So the iteration speed is quite pleasant.