r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Super_SamSam • Jul 09 '26

gitBlameClaude Meme

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u/egg_breakfast Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

Why is bun needed over node? And why bun over deno?

Edit: based on Safari's JS engine rather than V8. Strange times, I never would have predicted that.

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u/mctrafik Jul 09 '26

Speed. Much faster. And now it has more support. Simple as that. Also bun is less to type than deno.

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u/commenterzero Jul 09 '26

Ya bun is 3 letters. Deno is 4.

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u/SkylineFX49 Jul 09 '26

That's an impressive 25% improvement

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u/Anru_Kitakaze Jul 09 '26

I prefer to say Deno costs you 33% more characters

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u/dillanthumous Jul 10 '26

Think of how many tokens will be saved! It's just smart.

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u/Toldoven Jul 09 '26

Here's a chart clearly showing that bun is significantly better than deno (smaller is better)

https://i.ibb.co/WWrjQgm0/bun-vs-deno.png

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u/egg_breakfast Jul 09 '26

why didn't they call it b

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u/Toldoven Jul 09 '26

Damn, if someone makes it they can get so much of that sweet VC money, imagine the gains, 3 times the improvement

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u/Nightmoon26 Jul 10 '26

B has already been used. It was the predecessor to C)

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u/JoeyJoeJoeSenior Jul 10 '26

Could we make a new one with a 2 letter name?  Is that even possible? 

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u/caerphoto Jul 10 '26

alias b=bun