Comment by lhnz

  > The transition from CommonJS to ES modules has been slow and full of terrors. 
  > Bun supports both module systems, all the time. No need to worry about file
  > extensions, .js vs .cjs vs .mjs, or including "type": "module" in your 
  > package.json.
  >
  > You can even use import and require(), in the same file. It just works.

This is the highlight for me. The Node.js ecosystem is more-or-less completely broken otherwise. This might save it.

(I think that the most impressive thing about Bun isn't its performance but the pragmatic, developer-friendly choices that have been consistently made by Jarred.)