BUN: LESSONS FROM DISRUPTING A TECH ECOSYSTEM

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Bun is a backend JavaScript runtime with a focus on performance. It provides an up to 10x performance increase in package building or handling inbound server requests. Bun achieves this performance peak by using a more performant tech, making performance-centric optimizations, and making some trade offs to prefer performance over ease of use. Bun also reveals the contrast between a venture-funded open source system vs community-contributed open source - Node’s contributors are unpaid, while Bun has raised more than $7M.