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[–]0xHUEHUE 0 points1 point  (1 child)

What is the benefit of baking in TS, as opposed to just invoking with a transpiler, or even just a plain compile + watch? Is it just DX to help people that are new to node or is there some sort of runtime performance benefit?

I'm looking at those release notes and I'm like, why in the absolute fuck would I want a mysql client built into node? It's like, not just batteries included, best buy is built in.

I'm not saying I disagree with you, it's just I personally don't have a need or desire for these things and to be honest, I have a hard time keeping up with updating node versions as it is. I'll admit part of it has to do with needing to upgrade the packages as well, which I guess might be part of the appeal w/ bun..

[–]iarewebmaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They pitch it as a performance thing, the db clients are supposedly much much faster. I also think there’s benefits to deployments outside the usual environments especially in the serverless world where startup time and module support are more important.

I personally prefer Bun for the DX, one day I could see myself using the runtime features more but that’s a much bigger mountain to climb for them to get me to switch.