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by xchkr1337 1286 days ago
I don't see any reason to use this over Deno.
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FWIW this similarly-trivial "Hello world" benchmark shows Bun's lead at ~25% faster than Deno at the moment, which doesn't seem insurmountable. https://github.com/denosaurs/bench
Those benchmarks are measuring the speed of the tool used to run the benchmark, not the http servers. Take them with a pack of salt.
"Take all benchmarks with a grain of salt" is my middle name, but the benchmark I linked to is an open source project with 17 contributors. In contrast, I'm not seeing any source referenced by the Medium benchmark article I responded to.
Doesnt deno bring a bunch of security improvements to the table?
The more options the better.
Performance matters a lot.
Well then... don't write your back end in javascript? The next most popular alternative is probably Ruby which has even worse performance. I don't disagree that performance matters but I don't think the industry seems to agree