| I too would use it if the REPL worked properly. JS developers are often used to working interactively - the browser/console workflow - and have come to rely on testing ideas or problems / solutions in the REPL interactively. It's efficient, as you can test and narrow things down in isolation and figure out what is working or not-working very quickly. It's also a good way to try a new module, and this is reflected in docs that eg, use node's REPL as a demo. One bizarre problem with bun's REPL at the moment, which can be quite the unexpected "gotcha", is the REPL itself seems to be cached, and it goes stale. It actually expects to be able to update itself online every day or so, or it breaks! Yeah, well cool - unless you ever work offline. Eg, had you expected to work on a long flight and now half your dev workflow was broken, for no good reason. (And unfortunately bun's "--prefer-offline" flag had no effect.) I don't want to criticise bun too much - it is incredibly fast, and has made other significant workflow enhancements. But a REPL is a dealbreaker for some of us. I guess it's similar to hot code-reloading in compiled languages, you don't go back to the minutes-long compile-wait cycle for the kinds of problems that kind of workflow makes instantaneous. |