You can see at the beginning of the article a benchmark comparison with Webpack and esbuild.

They weren't using SWC? They describe deploying to Vercel, and Next.js has had stable built-in support for SWC for a good while now

iirc next.js only uses swc for the dev mode bundler

edit: this is no longer the case, ignore me :)

Webpack is the bundler. SWC as used in Next.js doesn't do the bundling part.

I also didn't understand this, if they were using NextJS, why do they have a custom webpack config? My assumption is that there is a separate web app that does the drawing and coloring, they bundle it into a script.js and include it in their nextJS page.

Yes, this is correct. All the canvas stuff has nothing to do with React, so I bundle it all separately. In fact, I don't even load React on the browser, I just render the initial page with it on the server then just work with the DOM from there on out. It greatly reduces the amount of JS shipped to the client, and since 90% of my code was going to be Canvas related, it's not much overhead to add a few click listeners for various DOM nodes

Ah true, my bad. Though it's still relevant to mention, because usually when people hear "using Webpack" they also assume "using Babel". Bun is doing both the bundling and the transpiling, so it should be compared to the bundler + transpiler combination

I use it a lot for small cli apps and during dev, it's so nice to be able to run typescript files with bun instead of tsx or ts-node.

I use esbuild-runner, it works fine for me

Yes, I love bun for running typescript cli apps. 40x80 or some such is hardwired as the screen size though, and without raw mode, things like terminal window “controls” are broken.

Yeah we need to fix raw mode

>I’m struggling to come up with reasons to actually use it (which is fine! As long as the author is enjoying the work, why not?)

I wish more people, or at least more HN commenters, had this attitude. Don't have to look hard to find negativity in response to folks getting out there and having a go. How many passion projects went nowhere* but taught authors valuable shit that lead to incredible engineering and projects? Besides, I love writing software and anyone who says I shouldn't because it isn't going to be better than the status quo can beat it.

*not implying Bun is going nowhere. Be gone, pedants.

You're right ! I think many software engineers shits on project may be based on their experiences and forgets that these projects can driven in future awesome creations