---
title: "A first look at Bun: is it really 3x faster than Node.js and Deno?"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-first-look-at-bun-is-it-really-3x-faster-than-node-js-and-deno--kmbep2mrx
source_url: https://dev.to/builderio/a-first-look-at-bun-is-it-really-3x-faster-than-nodejs-and-deno-45od
type: article
source: "DEV"
published: 2022-08-28T06:09:05.064Z
updated: 2023-08-12T02:22:40.662Z
tags: ["bun", "deno", "javascript", "performance", "react"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 53
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# A first look at Bun: is it really 3x faster than Node.js and Deno?

**[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 3 min read · 53 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Bun is 3x faster than Node.js, plus NPM, plus tsc, plus rollup - but faster. Bun team attributes performance to time spent profiling, benchmarking and optimizing. The work culture at Oven (the brand behind Bun) is far from ideal for anyone aware of work ethics of this century.

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