July 25th, 2022 × #JavaScript#Web Development#Performance
What is Bun? The New JS Runtime
This episode covers Bun, a new JavaScript runtime focused on performance and batteries included tools like a bundler and transpiler.
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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