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Moment I learned that it is for profit company behind bun, I got feeing that something stupid is coming
For context, in case any reader is not aware: Andrew Kelley, the author of this blog post, is also the creator and main developer of language Zig. And Bun was written in Zig.
“Oven is going to be a grind, especially the first nine months or so. If work-life balance means a lot of time spent not working, it’s probably not a good fit.”
Oh man, someone here recently shared a blog post on startup culture in software companies, which likened software to an oven, where you’d add a specific button for a customer and that fucks up your whole architecture for years to come etc…
For just a moment, I thought this was a direct quote from that blog post.
When Jarred announced the Rust rewrite, we were ecstatic. It seemed too good to be true. I have to admit, I didn’t think the technology was there, to pull off this stunt. But he did it, and now I’m metaphorically sipping delicious tea from a mug that says “It Tastes Like It’s Not My Problem Anymore”.
The best victory comes from a fight you don’t need to fight, as Sun Tzu said.
Is there another nodejs alternative that supports typescript in a similar way?
Does Deno fit your needs? It is also a drop-in replacement to a large degree, but is somewhat focused on improving the related tooling environment.
I’m not very involved in the (non-browser) JS ecosystem, but it’s my tool of choice.
Deno is pretty interesting because it has built in sandboxing. By default, no code can even access the network. Everything must be explicitly allowed, including network access and environment variables: https://docs.deno.com/runtime/fundamentals/security/
Access can be scoped pretty granularly as well, only allowing access to specific websites or env variables.
I really like this model since it offers a strong protection against secrets stealers, which have hit NPM extremely frequently. No more of malicious NPM packages scraping the whole system to find secrets.
It does have a performance tradeoff compared to Bun. Bun is (was?) the fastest, Node was the slowest, Deno was in the middle.
This looks nice actually. I can’t remember but I think there was some disadvantage compared to bun.
Performance, it’s slightly slower compared to Bun, but it is faster than Node. But it has sandboxing, which is neat.
