Supper Club × Bun with Jared Sumner

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Jared Sumner about why and how he created Bun, what Zig is, and the future of Bun. Tuple - Sponsor This week’s sponsor is Tuple, an app built specifically for remote pair programming. The app is written in C++ and tuned for high-resolution screen sharing and low-latency remote control. Because developers deserve better than Zoom or Meet for pairing. Tuple.app. Show Notes 00:37 Welcome 01:44 Who is Jared Sumner? Jarred Sumner on Twitter Bun Bun Discord Bun on GitHub 02:31 Why did you make Bun? 09:43 Using web API vs Node modules? 13:25 Do we still use npm? 15:42 Support for HTML Rewriter 16:46 Where do you see Bun being used? 19:25 Do you think someone will write a type checker? 21:18 Sponsor: Tuple 22:07 What is Zig? 24:57 Did you have a history of learning languages? 28:16 Have you ever thought of putting Bun on hardware? 29:59 Is there a package.json file in Bun projects? 31:34 What can’t Node just get faster? 32:16 What is the future of Bun? 36:27 Thoughts on types in JavaScript? 41:16 Why did you build an SQLite client into Bun? 42:54 Supper Club questions Starship Warp 48:52 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Bun meme Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	I sure hope you're hungry!
0:02.4	Who I'm starving?
0:04.2	Wash those hands, pull up a chair, and secure that feedback.
0:08.1	Because it's time to listen to Scott Tolinsky and Wes Boss' attempt to use human language to converse with
0:14.2	and pick the brains of other developers.
0:16.8	I thought there was gonna be food.
0:18.7	So buckle up and grab that old f***ing handle.
0:21.7	Because this ride is going to get wild.
0:26.0	This is The Syntax Supper Club.
0:37.3	Welcome to Syntax Supper Club.
0:40.8	Today we have a very special guest.
0:44.0	We have Jared Sumner, the bun creator.
0:48.8	I was trying to think of some way to rhyme Sumner with bun and fun creator.
0:53.1	All these things, lovely things, supper club, whatever we got here.
0:56.5	My name is Scott Tolinsky.
0:57.5	I'm a developer from Denver, Colorado.
0:59.3	With me, as always, is Wes Boss, as he is always.
1:03.3	And today, we're talking JavaScript runtimes.
1:06.5	We're talking bun and Jared.
1:10.3	How's it going?
1:11.3	Pretty good.
1:11.8	This episode is sponsored by Tupil at tupil.app.
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