[HN Gopher] Bun - fast JavaScript and CSS bundler
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Bun - fast JavaScript and CSS bundler
Author : thunderbong
Score : 29 points
Date : 2021-11-10 20:01 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (bun.sh)
(TXT) w3m dump (bun.sh)
| gnabgib wrote:
| Related: [Hop](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29178710)
| where the repo references Bun, and user
| [@Jarred](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Jarred) seems to
| be affiliated
| muhammadusman wrote:
| > Request early access?
|
| No, let me try it now and see if it is better than the dozens of
| other tools already openly available.
| mdaniel wrote:
| Depending on how brave you feel he has published binaries:
| https://github.com/Jarred-Sumner/bun-releases-for-updater/re...
| abdusco wrote:
| For a list of similar JavaScript tools that are written in other
| languages:
|
| https://github.com/RobinCsl/awesome-js-tooling-not-in-js/
| mdaniel wrote:
| > Request early access ( https://bun.sh/discord )
|
| Welp, that's a "close window" for me, and I guess it's my fault
| for putting up with the hot pink background long enough to even
| read the page
|
| I'll let others chime in with the obligatory "other bundlers are
| too $whatever, so I made $new_thing that doesn't
| $other_things_one_needs_to_be_successful"
| eyelidlessness wrote:
| Why the negativity? It's pre-release software. The landing page
| and invites are for people already interested in its early
| development, not to try to convince you to become interested.
|
| That said, there's _tons_ of public information about Bun on
| the creator's Twitter[1], a lot of it quite interesting, if
| more curious folks want to find out more. And I wrote a short
| list of things I find compelling[2] in the related post about
| another of Jarred's projects, for the Twitter-averse.
|
| 1: https://twitter.com/jarredsumner?s=21
|
| 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29180483
| mdaniel wrote:
| The are two forms of negativity in my comment, which come
| from different sore spots in my contact with JS bundlers
|
| 1. bright pink marketing page that wants me to join Discord
| just to stand in line for access to some release of this
| software in the future
|
| 1. claims of how great a new bundler is in the face of many,
| many, many, many, many projects started over the years
| claiming "oh, yeah, those esbuild jokers are no good, but I
| used Zig so my bundler is going to work much better"
|
| Now I do appreciate that maybe the author wasn't the one who
| submitted this "pre-release software" page to HN, but nor did
| I try to comment upon any such twitter thread to express my
| opinion -- I weighed in on the HN thread as a nod to others
| who may come to the comments first in order to get the tl;dr
| before loading up the page
|
| Also, if jarredsumner's twitter is the authoritative source
| for why one should bother joining Discord, then the site
| would be well served to provide a link to that instead of
| linking to Zig as the compelling "read here for more info"
| airtonix wrote:
| pink page... elite attitude.
|
| yet not typescript support.
|
| so much meh.
| caboteria wrote:
| Turning the question around: what's so special about this one
| piece of software that justifies hiding it?
| steveklabnik wrote:
| I know nothing about bun, but it is a common pattern when
| you have a vision for how to build a complicated piece of
| software that will end up being open source to start with
| it closed off until you've got enough of everything in
| place that you're comfortable showing it off to everyone.
| When it's open, people will expect to be able to send PRs,
| ask questions, etc, and at the start, that can be a
| distraction from the task at hand of getting the initial
| system built.
| caboteria wrote:
| What you describe is quite reasonable, but that's not
| what's happening here. If the author were doing what you
| describe then we wouldn't be talking about it on HN.
| Instead, they've gone to the trouble of building a fancy
| pink website and also hidden the software behind a
| paywall (or something, I didn't click it). Speaking only
| for myself, it's the combination of those two things that
| creeps me out.
| jwilber wrote:
| I can't think of a single example where a piece of open-
| source software was announced like this before it was
| available in some form.
| Minor49er wrote:
| With the amount of talk about Bun on the Twitter account
| compared to Bun's own homepage, I'm surprised that bun.sh
| doesn't at least have a link to the account
| tomphoolery wrote:
| taking bets that $whatever is Rust and
| $other_things_one_needs_to_be_successful is an ecosystem.
| bredren wrote:
| Is this built on esbuild?
|
| I was okay putting in my email but I don't want to join a
| discord.
| Sirikon wrote:
| No public code, no interest.
| oblak wrote:
| Oh boy. I feel like #ffb8ff is kind of bad for your eyes with
| current display technology. That was painful even with
| brightness/contrast set to low on my big IPS panel.
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