I feel like such a downer when I ask this about Bun and Deno, but: why should I use them instead of Node?
I don’t mean to take away from the obviously impressive engineering effort here. But VC funding always gives me pause because I don’t know how long the product is going to be around. I was actually more interested in Deno when it promised a reboot of the JS ecosystem but both Bun and Deno seem to have discovered that Node interoperability is a requirement so they’re all in the same (kinda crappy) ecosystem. I’m just not sure what the selling point is that makes it worth the risk.
I don’t mean to take away from the obviously impressive engineering effort here. But VC funding always gives me pause because I don’t know how long the product is going to be around. I was actually more interested in Deno when it promised a reboot of the JS ecosystem but both Bun and Deno seem to have discovered that Node interoperability is a requirement so they’re all in the same (kinda crappy) ecosystem. I’m just not sure what the selling point is that makes it worth the risk.