Posted on Sep 28 In this weekly roundup, we highlight what we believe to be the most thoughtful, helpful, and/or interesting Discussion over the past week! Though we are strong believers in healthy and respectful debate, we typically try to choose discussions that are positive in nature and avoid those that are overly contentious.Any folks whose articles we feature here will be rewarded with our Discussion of the Week badge. ✨Now that y'all understand the flow, let's go! 🏃💨This one goes to Sadeedpv (@sadeedpv) for initiating "Thoughts on Bun so far?":The Bun hype train is chugging along... 🚂 But is the hype warranted? Sadeedpv's short'n'sweet discussion poses some solid open-ended questions and puts the focus on the comments. Folks have been chiming in, outlining their concerns and expressing a healthy amount of skepticism, while also still showing some cautious optimism.Props to @alaindet who shared a good point about competing standards, along with an entertaining xkcd comic that succinctly pokes fun at the proliferation of standards:The incompatibility with the Node ecosystem means it's just another "Competing Standard" (as in this the xkcd comic xkcd.com/927/). I'd rather wait for Node.js to evolve or use Go instead.The thread with @joelbonetr, @lionelrowe, and @cmgustin was also quite productive and enlightening. Notably, Joel pointed to a recent post by @thejaredwilcurt titled "Bun hype. How we learned nothing from Yarn" as a resource that might be of interest to folks who are looking into Bun.I'm skeptical for now.It's OK to toy around using a side project that you know it'll be thrown in the bin after a week or two.Working on corporate, high-budget projects it doesn't seem like an option to evaluate, at least not yet. On the other hand, synthetic benchmarks need to be picked with a grain -or a full truck- of salt. It's possible that in real use cases bun performs worse than Node depending on the scenario and I won't be surprised by that.It may help on changing the roadmap for Node, whether this is good or bad it's a different topic of discussion. If any readers here have thoughts to share, don't hesitate to hop into the comments of the post and let us know what's on your mind!The DEV Community is particularly special because of the kind, thoughtful, helpful, and entertaining discussions happening between community members. As such, we want to encourage folks to participate in discussions and reward those who are initiating or taking part in conversations across the community. After all, a community is made possible by the people interacting inside it.There are loads of great discussions floating about in this community. This is just the one we chose to highlight. 🙂I urge you all to share your favorite discussion of the past week below in the comments. And if you're up for it, give the author an @mention — it'll probably make 'em feel good. 💚Templates let you quickly answer FAQs or store snippets for re-use. Are you sure you want to hide this comment? It will become hidden in your post, but will still be visible via the comment's permalink. Hide child comments as well Confirm For further actions, you may consider blocking this person and/or reporting abuse Felix Turner - Sep 21 Chris Jarvis - Sep 24 Shwet Khatri - Sep 15 Ben Halpern - Sep 25 Want to contribute to open source and help make the DEV community stronger?The code that powers DEV is called Forem and is freely available on GitHub.You're welcome to jump in! Once suspended, devteam will not be able to comment or publish posts until their suspension is removed. Once unsuspended, devteam will be able to comment and publish posts again. Once unpublished, all posts by devteam will become hidden and only accessible to themselves. If devteam is not suspended, they can still re-publish their posts from their dashboard. Note: Once unpublished, this post will become invisible to the public and only accessible to Michael Tharrington. They can still re-publish the post if they are not suspended. Thanks for keeping DEV Community safe. Here is what you can do to flag devteam: devteam consistently posts content that violates DEV Community's code of conduct because it is harassing, offensive or spammy. Unflagging devteam will restore default visibility to their posts. DEV Community — A constructive and inclusive social network for software developers. With you every step of your journey. Built on Forem — the open source software that powers DEV and other inclusive communities.Made with love and Ruby on Rails. DEV Community © 2016 - 2023. We're a place where coders share, stay up-to-date and grow their careers.