---
title: "Bun (can become) the ideal JavaScript runtime"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/bun-can-become-the-ideal-javascript-runtime-nbkfyjbst
source_url: https://alexhultman.medium.com/bun-can-become-the-ideal-javascript-runtime-3b2610792433?source=rss------javascript-5
type: article
source: "Medium"
published: 2022-07-12T17:57:36.329Z
updated: 2023-08-12T02:28:42.554Z
tags: ["bun", "javascript"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 161
comments: 4
language: en
---

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# Bun (can become) the ideal JavaScript runtime

**[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 2 min read · 161 upvotes · 4 comments

## Summary

Bun is the first project of its kind that really listens to criticism. The project is experimental, and will require time and effort to mature, but it already shows some incredible potential. It’s the best of both worlds. To be able to write business logic in simple script, yet have the platform it runs on perform close to native.

## Full article

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@ashnard** · 8 upvotes

> This article is trash lol

**@dgorp** · 1 upvotes

> Bun runtime points very high and it has done very well till now...
> **Hoping even greater features**

**@ch\_dev** · 0 upvotes

> Love the idea and project, hope it grows quickly since there are so many potentiality!

**@ariaieboy** · 0 upvotes

> i think the big problem would be the maintaining of the bun.js since its use zig language that is not that popular right now and there are not alot of people that know how to code on zig

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