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Re:Bun: Fast JavaScript runtime, transpiler, and NPM client ... by andyfleming on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @05:55PM (#31994236)
I think some creators pursue products as ways to fund their passions. For example, was deno deploy always the endgame or is it just a way to fund working on deno? Aside from motivation, how it's implemented and how it affects the community matters.
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Re:Bun: Fast JavaScript runtime, transpiler, and NPM client ... by asciiresort on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @06:10PM (#31994380)
> it has the edge in mind

This part, very early on in the Bun page, stood out. That’s a monetizable product, even if the code is open source. That to me felt like positioning itself as a potential drop in replacement for Deno Deploy / Edge Functions.

There was serverless, and now the next trend is with edge computing. It’s already happening, but now specifically about runtimes on that edge.

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Re:Bun: Fast JavaScript runtime, transpiler, and NPM client ... by ignoramous on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @04:43AM (#31998340)
> This part, very early on in the Bun page, stood out. That’s a monetizable product, even if the code is open source.

bun isn't open source, it is source available (at this point in time, at least): https://github.com/Jarred-Sumner/bun/issues/241

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Re:Bun: Fast JavaScript runtime, transpiler, and NPM client ... by andyfleming on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @07:11PM (#31994883)
It actually seems more vendor agnostic in description. It's an overall advantage of bun, but there isn't any first-class bun service pitched (at least at this point).
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