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by Hexagon56k 1016 days ago
> worse than I thought it would be, bordering on useless.

I'm all ears! Will revise it later today

Not sure about you, but I really do hate Babel, Prettify, tsc, uglify and all that. I think it's awesome that they are integrated in Deno and Bun, and starting to get integrated into Node.

We all know that Node has a massive ecosystem, job opportunities and all that, do I really need to list that as features? I don't think any company would read this and think "Woah, let's ditch node!"

Should I list "better compatibility with existing Node modules" as a feature for Bun?

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I think the problem with what you have now is that the feature comparison values "built in" above any other qualities. Obviously would require a much bigger article but I think the only way this is useful is if there is a comparison of tools in each runtime and "built in" is simply a pro in that comparison.
How about something like "<green check> (Built in)", "<green check>(Native Ecosystem)", "<yellow check> (Third party), "<red cross>" as a fix which avoids loads of text?
In my opinion that would be much more helpful than what was there before, it still gives preference to built in tools above all other criteria but you at least avoid the false impression that tools provided by the ecosystem don't exist.
Done!