Baby Got Bun | Ep 11

This week on the pod, we talk all about the Bun runtime funtimes! This is a powerful new player in the JavaScript and TypeScript runtime space focusing on DX, speed, and pushing the state of the art! We dive into the details and offer some of our thoughts around when to use it at the moment. In other news we avoid phone scams and talk fun new TypeScript libraries. Also Please email us your feedback for your retro episode (feedback at typescript.fm)Personal News00:36 Welcome01:33 Kamran & Erik IRLMinnebarVGM Con02:39 Erik @ C Fundamentals by Frontend MastersFFM02:55 Vibe Coding03:43 LLMs "what are they good for?!"04:31 Kamran's New Course06:16 Kamran Review book on Time Freedom07:31 Scams and Phone CallsFTC Warning about fake Jury Duty(09:26) News for the Week of March 17, 202509:34 Next.js 9.1 CVEPR with fixEd's Video on this @ Low Level Learning10:43 Deno 2.2.511:13 Deno Patch Functionality11:59 Deno FFI Docs Update13:04 PandaCI: A New CI/CD Tool16:17 HKT Core(17:33) Community Highlights17:33 TS Go GitHub Discussion on Compiler API18:24 Deno Compile Vite20:07 Blog Post by Andy Jiang about Deno+OTel22:35 Cory House on Implementing Immutability in TypeScript23:16 RGSTRY for managing decorator metadata24:19 Corepack removal from Node, Sarah has a good overviewBun Deep Dive27:22 Introduction to Bun RuntimeBaby Got Back by Jonathan Coulton 28:01 What is Bun28:23 Bun vs Node.js and Dino29:25 Features and Capabilities of Bun30:40 Bun Performance31:23 C Tangent32:12 Bun DX35:20 Standalone Executable35:53 Use Cases for Bun38:00 Cautions and Considerations41:38 Good Use Cases46:24 Bun CommunityThis OP asked about Bun and ended up moving to Deno actuallyMemory Leaks Reddit threads48:09 ConclusionsOutro52:00 Cool Stuff This Week58:11 Give Us Feedback (feedback at typescript.fm)Other LinksProfiling TypeScript in VSCodeCobol Based UIhttps://github.com/oven-sh/awesome-bun Chess in TypeScript types Developer SpeakSponsored by Excalibur.jsExcalibur.js is the friendly TypeScript game engine for making 2D web games. Use your TypeScript or JavaScript skills to make games! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need to make web games, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, input, and particles. Design your assets with tools like Aseprite and Tiled, then load them natively using first-party plugins.MusicSeahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)Creators & Guests Erik Onarheim - Host Kamran Ayub - Host