135: Bun is Back in the Oven

About this episode

The episode discusses the latest updates in Bun and the introduction of npmx.

This week's a non-AI episode! It’s been a minute since we last discussed Bun, but the team is back with a new release. In v1.3.10, the REPL’s completely rewritten in Zig, barrel imports are optimized, and the JavaScriptCore engine got upgraded for big perf gains. Npmx, a fast, modern browser for the npm registry has reached alpha version in less than 2 months of existence. Its goal is to make it easy for devs to find, evaluate, and manage npm packages, and boasts cool features like the abilit...

People in this episode

Hosts: TJ VanToll, Paige Niedringhaus, Jack Herrington

Topics covered

• Bun
• npmx
• JavaScriptCore
• performance
• development tools

Keywords

• Bun
• npmx
• JavaScriptCore
• performance
• development
• REPL
• Zig

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: JavaScriptCore, Zig

Products: Bun, npmx

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