[inglor]

Take as long as you need to ensure software quality. A month without a release isn't a big deal and whomever needs a specific feature can offer to contribute or build themselves.

Node has 4-6 weeks without a meaningful release (other than security stuff) pretty much every December. I think the criticism in the article is unfounded and whomever needed/wanted a release should have asked first instead of writing an "angry" blog post.

(I'm a Node.js maintainer)

[tomlockwood]

Author here: I don't need or want another Bun release or an NPM release or anything like that. Like I very clearly say in the article I just got chatting with a peer about the Bun rewrite and I decided to take a look.

I'm consistently skeptical about new tech whether it is NoSQL or Blockchain or Serverless. Some of the things I'm skeptical about fail and some succeed.

[throw1234567891]

That’s a great approach. No matter what you will always find a reason to be positively surprised!

[inglor]

The bun Port is a phenomenal engineering achievement that would have taken a team of people over a year or two to deliver previously - look at the TypeScript port for example (and they had llms).

The fact it's taking a while to release is still insanely fast. I'm sure they may be some bumps.

Being skeptical is good and some stuff succeeds and some doesn't - but building tools is still fun and cool, whether it's useful or widely adopted or not :)

[jojobas]

The initial "10 days and $165k" was still a tad optimistic dontchathink?

[tomlockwood]

Yeah if you want you can check out my github page to see some tool failures. Nobody is hyping those up, though.

[WhitneyLand]

The problem is what you’re skeptical about, the true cost, is probably the least important part.

Did it really cost $1 million instead of the 150k that’s been floating around?

If you don’t like the price now just give it some time.

The point is that these kind of heroics can actually work now and they’re only going to get cheaper.

I don’t mean to sound negative about what you wrote, it was an interesting read.

[tomlockwood]

Personally I think the cost does matter.

[da02]

What are some of your favorite tools or services that you adopted in the past few years?

[tomlockwood]

uv

[inigyou]

What is Node getting every 4-6 weeks that makes it noteworthy when it doesn't?

[inglor]

Text imports (experimental), native addon ESM support, blob textStream(), ReadableStreamTee, byob for readFile, better event loop monitoring and lots of security fixes as well as more minor bug fixes and improvements. (Last 4-6 weeks)

[nonethewiser]

Another functional way to iterate over an array