> has a multiplier codebase. A bug may affect a significant larger portion of users than most libraries or binaries will

Couldn't you say exactly the same about bun?

Sure, but Bun is now owned by a company who's entire shtick is creating AI models. That shifts priorities.

It might be one of the reasons they want to migrate to Rust, i.e. to handle many these memory related issues by the compiler. Personally I used bun on a very few personal instances. But if you check issue reports, you will see memory bugs being reported say more than deno.