And it's successful! I've unironically learned about Bun on YouTube, and now am a happy user. :)

A set of "blessed" known good packages would be wonderful to have in any language, I wonder why it's not a thing.

I'm wondering what made you switch ? I find the ubiquity of node very comforting, maybe I'm not seeing the argument that will convert me over ?

Not the original commenter -

It has just been a pretty low effort drop in replacement for me. It's definitely not a complete game changer, but quick iteration is just that bit more convenient since it's faster and I don't need to remember all the flags I normally have for my setup (Typescript, .env file, etc...)

Not entirely switch, but so far I've been using bun for small side projects and it's been rewarding. There's a lot less project managing, some scripts can be just a single file with no dependencies, no package.json and no build chain.

Of the "batteries included" features, the `Bun.serve` web server and the `HTMLRewriter` HTML5 SAX API thing are very powerful, saving a lot of node_modules space.

Running TypeScript without a build step is neat. (I know there's `node --experimental-transform-types`, and it's great to see this feature propagated "upstream")

That said, for large established Node.js projects, I don't really see the pull to switch over to Bun. There's cost associated with it (for one, the built-in test runner works a bit differently, so if you're using `node --test` it'll require some fiddling)

No, thanks. That’s what Kotlin does and it’s an absolute shitshow. I want ‘editor index.ts’ and start working instead of going shopping for something that should’ve been part of std.