Came to mention Bun when I saw this hit the front page. I’ve been following Jarred’s Twitter since I heard about Bun and it’s quite impressive (albeit incomplete). To folks wondering why another bundler/what makes Bun special:
- Faster than ESBuild/SWC
- Fast build-time macros written as JSX (likely friendlier to develop than say a Babel plugin/macro). These open up a lot of possibilities that could benefit end users too, by performing more work on build/server and less client side.
- Targeting ecosystem compatibility (eg will probably support the new JSX transform, which ESBuild does not and may not in the future)
- Support for integration with frameworks, eg Next.js
- Other cool performance-focused tools like Hop and Peechy[1] (though that’s a fork of ESBuild creator’s project Kiwi)
This focus on performance is good for the JS ecosystem and for the web generally.
- Faster than ESBuild/SWC
- Fast build-time macros written as JSX (likely friendlier to develop than say a Babel plugin/macro). These open up a lot of possibilities that could benefit end users too, by performing more work on build/server and less client side.
- Targeting ecosystem compatibility (eg will probably support the new JSX transform, which ESBuild does not and may not in the future)
- Support for integration with frameworks, eg Next.js
- Other cool performance-focused tools like Hop and Peechy[1] (though that’s a fork of ESBuild creator’s project Kiwi)
This focus on performance is good for the JS ecosystem and for the web generally.
1: https://github.com/Jarred-Sumner/peechy