Behind the Scenes of Bun Install

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  1. bun

    Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one

    I really want to like Bun and Deno. I've tried using both several times and so far I've never made it more than a few thousand lines of code before hitting a deal breaker.

    Last big issue I had with Bun was streams closing early:

    https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/16037

    Last big issue I had with Deno was a memory leak:

    https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/24674

    At this point I feel like the Node ecosystem will probably adopt the good parts of Bun/Deno before Bun/Deno really take off.

  2. Kargo

    Stop Scripting Promotions. Start Shipping with Kargo. Kargo automates promotion across dev, staging, and prod with approval gates and verification. Open source, built by the team behind Argo CD. Download now.

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  3. deno

    A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.

    I really want to like Bun and Deno. I've tried using both several times and so far I've never made it more than a few thousand lines of code before hitting a deal breaker.

    Last big issue I had with Bun was streams closing early:

    https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/16037

    Last big issue I had with Deno was a memory leak:

    https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/24674

    At this point I feel like the Node ecosystem will probably adopt the good parts of Bun/Deno before Bun/Deno really take off.

  4. rv

    💎💨 Extremely fast Ruby version and gem manager

    it's pretty new, but in Ruby there's `rv` which is clearly inspired by `uv`: https://github.com/spinel-coop/rv.

    >Brought to you by Spinel

    >Spinel.coop is a collective of Ruby open source maintainers building next->generation developer tooling, like rv, and offering flat-rate, unlimited access >to maintainers who come from the core teams of Rails, Hotwire, Bundler, RubyGems, rbenv, and more.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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