[the_black_hand]

I'm old. currently in npm dependency hell on my side project. wtf is bun and will switching to it save me?

[culi]

Unlikely. Not all npm packages are even compatible with Bun (tho 98% are).

Bun started off as an alternative runtime to Node (like Deno) but today is an everything-monster. It even has a built-in test-runner.

To be completely honest, if you're dealing with dependency hell in 2026 you might be misusing npm. Or you're trying to update a really old project