Faster package manager
replyFaster startup
Typescript support out of the box
Better stdlib than node
Stdlib includes yaml, sqlite etc so you need to pull in fewer deps, so you can avoid the left-pad/is-even node_modules explosion problem to a greater extent
Can't comment on others, but new Node.js also has typescript out of the box and works pretty well.
replyI don’t think you would use Bun for front end.
replyThat's what Claude Code does at least
replyI mean, Astro on Bun?
replySo much of JS dev is just saying no to random new stuff, Bun included
replyi assume it's because of all the built in tooling that node doesn't ship with.
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