Author here: I don't need or want another Bun release or an NPM release or anything like that. Like I very clearly say in the article I just got chatting with a peer about the Bun rewrite and I decided to take a look.
I'm consistently skeptical about new tech whether it is NoSQL or Blockchain or Serverless. Some of the things I'm skeptical about fail and some succeed.
The bun Port is a phenomenal engineering achievement that would have taken a team of people over a year or two to deliver previously - look at the TypeScript port for example (and they had llms).
The fact it's taking a while to release is still insanely fast. I'm sure they may be some bumps.
Being skeptical is good and some stuff succeeds and some doesn't - but building tools is still fun and cool, whether it's useful or widely adopted or not :)
The initial "10 days and $165k" was still a tad optimistic dontchathink?
That’s a great approach. No matter what you will always find a reason to be positively surprised!
What are some of your favorite tools or services that you adopted in the past few years?
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