What is Bun? The New JS Runtime

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Wes Bos

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🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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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? Lightstep Incident Response - Sponsor Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial of Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Usage-based pricing on active services promotes collaboration across your entire team to build a culture of service ownership. Listeners of Syntax will also receive a free Lightstep Incident Response T-shirt after firing an alert or incident. Pay for the services you use, not the number of people on your team with Lightstep Incident Response, built on ServiceNow. Streamline on-call, collaboration, incident management, and automation with a free 30-day trial. Fire an alert or incident today and receive a free Lightstep Incident Response t-shirt. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax 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? 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	Monday! Monday! Monday! Open wide dev fans! Get ready to stuff your face with
0:07.0	JavaScript CSS! Node modules! Barbecue tips! Get workflows! Break dancing! Soft skills!
0:12.0	Web development! The hastiest! The Carrazius! The tastiest! Web development
0:17.0	treats! Coming in hot! Here is Wes Barakuda! Boss and Scott El Torro Lugo!
0:24.0	Tolinsky!
0:27.0	Welcome to syntax in this Monday! Hastie Treat! We're going to be talking about
0:31.0	BUN! B-U-N-BUN is the latest and greatest in the JavaScript world that's a new
0:39.0	JS runtime and more. We're going to be talking all about what BUN is and why you
0:44.0	should have it on your radar. My name is Scott Tolinsky. I'm a developer from Denver,
0:49.0	Colorado, and with me, as always, is Wes. Boss!
0:52.0	Very excited about BUN here. I like all things BUNs, hand BUNs. Yeah, BUNs,
0:59.0	BUNs, any other BUN. I like it. JavaScript environment. You name it, so this is pretty
1:04.0	exciting. Like Bunnies. Bunnies. I do like Bunnies, yeah. Got to love all that
1:09.0	stuff. This episode is sponsored by two amazing companies. Lightstep incident
1:14.0	response is the intelligent on-call scheduling and escalation, as well as
1:18.0	freshbooks, the amazing cloud accounting software that you know and love.
1:23.0	Let's talk about one of our sponsors, FreshBooks. FreshBooks is the cloud accounting
1:28.0	service for your small business. You're going to want to use this if you are
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1:39.0	My clients love freshbooks because they're able to just log in and see it.
1:43.0	Like I have people send me invoices via freshbooks. And it's great. So I can just
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