Some real benchmarks on Bun (compared with Node) -- It only wins sometimes, but it's mostly a fail

In my opinion, any advancement is worthwhile, even if current consensus is that it’s over-optimization. And if it starts tying up its loose ends, it’ll no doubt benefit node developers as well. Healthy competition and all that.

I’m with you on that. I’ve built dozens and dozens of node apps both professionally and for personal projects and yeah maybe the package installs could be faster, but the overall performance of the server has also been pretty good. If node is slow for you, maybe there’s some other optimizations to be made rather than switching the next new things as a solution.

damn you for making me notice, but it totally is...

exactly me right now.

Pretty much. Their benchmarks seem to be VERY cherry picked to skew things in their favour, specially the testing framework part, where bun compares its speed to one of the slowest testing frameworks out there (jest) and claim victory.

I'm very glad that this guy actually made benchmarks instead of just reading what's on bun's site before posting a video about it.

Bun is blazingly faster than node*

*As a package manager

Not at every turn though. Also it runs on Webkit instead of Googles V8 :)

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You’ve never had an issue with how slow npm installs?

Build times in nodejs are not so great in even medium size projects if you make heavy usage of advanced typescript features - either yourself or through libraries like zod. So if something makes the nodejs runtime faster, it could potentially make ts compiler faster too - for which I'd be very grateful.

I don't understand it either.

I've only had issues with npm speeds when the projects were stored in a HDD, and that's not node's fault.

I guess I don’t understand this obsession with speed?

for me it hasn't been build speed but rather execution

I've run into problems with dayjs slowing down requests where I need to do a lot of processing. There are arguments to be made about replacing dayjs with datefns and how I should've been doing it differently anyway, but fact is that if the whole execution environment was twice as fast, it probably wouldn't have been much of a problem at all

because speed = your page loading fast = more clients = more satisfied clients = less environmental impact = less build time = less time downloading and lock-ing modules = more time for you ... the list goes on.

I dont understand why is it so hard to understand that ... guys ... speed ... does ... matter? Our time matters? Our anything matters? And if you dont care, I do.