No comments? I thought that an all-in-one development tool would get at least some admiration (or opinions that would be educational to me) from the lovely people on HN.
Like, getting MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/SQLite and Redis/Valkey support out of the box alongside a bunch of other web stuff that you'd otherwise have to rely on something like Express.js for seems pretty good, when you don't want to have too many dependencies that are loosely scattered around!
Now this might be a more personal opinion, but that's also why I think there is some value in something like Angular for front end development vs the complexity of Next.js / Nuxt.js and the library like nature of React or Vue (even if in general I much prefer the ergonomics of using Vue to everything else).
It’s an impressive release. I’m a big fan of Bun. I do wish their SQL drivers supported streaming of results. Currently, iirc, it loads the query results into an array.
It’s a minor bit, but it made me reach for Go for a recent project.
I will occasionally run into a dependency like drizzle-kit that perhaps isn’t runtime aware/agnostic enough to “just work”. I’ll admit I haven’t researched it to the fullest extent, but for a handful of projects I did have to include node.
I love bun, but the things I wish it was used for it is not being implemented.
Namely language servers in editors like VS Code and Zed for dramatic performance improvements, and serverless environments like Vercel and Cloudflare. Maybe I'm missing something, but aren't all these bun native APIs useless if they are deployed to environments that only support Node? Is everyone using bun for dev also managing their own infra stack?
