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I had high hopes for Bun, but looks like it has gone down the shitter after they went all in on vibecoding.


This was pre-Anthropic but the fact that Bun automatically loads .env files if they're present almost disqualifies it from most tasks https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/23967

It makes it hard to take them too seriously with such a design choice - a footgun really. It's so easy to accidentally load secrets via environment variables, with no way to disable this anti-feature.


Damn. That one is absolutely horrific.

What a find.


Any specific links to problems? I was planning to start a new project on it :(


Deno is solid. Or just use nodejs, it got many of the features deno/bun originally shipped with. No matter how you slice it, node is still the defacto server side JS runtime.


Anthropic acquisition, what do you expect as outcome?


Best case is they throw their endless amount of paper at it without touching it. At least something useful comes out of this AI crap then. One can dream.


I still have high praises since one of my clients use it in production.

I personally use it's tooling part which is screamingly fast.


it's been flawless for me


That's maybe more worrisome, everything has tradeoffs, if you don't know them yet, search for them :)


It's worse to assume something is completely broken and anyone who has had a good experience with it to be an ignorant.

I know the tradeoffs. For me it's way better than Node. Especially given the campaign targeting Node devs.

https://socket.dev/blog/attackers-hunting-high-impact-nodejs...


> It's worse to assume something is completely broken and anyone who has had a good experience with it to be an ignorant.

About the same, regardless, truth usually sits somewhere in the middle :)

> I know the tradeoffs

No harm no foul then, "it's been flawless for me" certainly gave me a different impression, but I guess as long as we all find the tools that work for us.


Well I certainly didn't say "it's flawless" :)




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