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by vasergen 1018 days ago
I think the version is actually closer to `1.0.0-beta` than to `1.0.0`. I just installed v 1.0.0 and run `bun repl` and it failed with exit status code 1, it turns out the repl wants to use port 3000, which was used in my case already. There are probably a lot of other small things like that, look on reported bugs in github. So, I also should be 'skeptical' about all claims they did.

Nevertheless I am super impressed with their speed and exited with the result. Didn't expect this project to grow so quickly to this state, I though it will take them much more time. For comparison, deno was started way earlier and now they are miles behind (personal feeling). I am considering to use it for my pet projects
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ShadowBanThis01 1018 days ago
How is Deno "miles behind?"

I just started a new project, writing the back end. I'm new to JS and TS, and I don't want to deal with NPM and a morass of modules at all. Deno, Oak, and MariaDB seem like a pretty tidy combo. I have routes and queries up and working with no experience in writing server-side code since PHP 5.

What makes Bun better?

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Jarred 1018 days ago
bun repl was a last-minute hack we added. All it does is "bun x bun-repl" which is currently not an official thing.

The repl is about to be added and rewritten completely

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Tomuus 1018 days ago
1.0.0 means the API and semantics are stable, not that there are no bugs.
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MatthiasPortzel 1018 days ago
I’m a little surprised they announced 1.0 already. When I tried bun a little while ago, I noticed many bugs reported on GitHub around reading from standard-in and readline. I attributed it to being a pre-1.0 thing, but those bugs have not been resolved as far as I can tell.
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Jarred 1018 days ago
What issues are you running into? We added support for setRawMode in Bun v0.8 (a month ago) and that addressed many issues with stdin and readline.
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whalesalad 1018 days ago
The port being in use is user error not really fair to put that on bun.
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frutiger 1018 days ago
The following is probably not relevant for bun. But as an aside:

Most programs should bind to port 0 and let the OS allocate a free port and then report the resulting port to any future clients.

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PoignardAzur 1017 days ago
It is when you're trying to run a REPL. You really shouldn't need exclusive access to a port for that.
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