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Bun is the third of its kind after Node.js and Deno.js, created by Jarred Sumner using the Zig programming language. Bun advances to provide new levels of speed and enhanced complexity.

What Is Bun.js and Why Is the JavaScript Community Excited About It?

Bun is 3x faster than Node.js, plus NPM, plus tsc, plus rollup - but faster. Bun team attributes performance to time spent profiling, benchmarking and optimizing. The work culture at Oven (the brand behind Bun) is far from ideal for anyone aware of work ethics of this century.

A first look at Bun: is it really 3x faster than Node.js and Deno?

Bun is a web development framework and toolkit for building modern, serverless web applications using TypeScript and AWS Lambda. It provides features such as routing, middleware, and serverless functions for developing and deploying scalable, event-driven applications on AWS infrastructure. Readers can explore Bun's architecture, features, and development workflows for building serverless APIs, microservices, and web applications with minimal configuration and operational overhead, leveraging AWS Lambda's scalability and pay-as-you-go pricing model for cost-effective cloud-native development.

Best of Bun — August 2022