Bash? Nah, I Have Bun.

The new Bun shell ($) enables some INCREDIBLY cursed stuff. I loved every second of it

S/O Ph4se0n3 for the awesome edit 🙏

[leonzill]

I open my front end code, it is JavaScript. I open my server code, it is JavaScript. My database? JavaScript. My shell commands? JavaScript. I leave my desk to get a snack. I open the fridge, it’s full of JavaScript. I try to scream, but only JavaScript comes out.

[minikame]

If this scope creep keeps up, Bun will end up being an entire OS. You read it here first.

[vsolyomi]

The cycle historically is 1.5-2 years for JS: we do the thing our own way and its the best thing ever, in 2 years: we did this thing our way and it was the worst thing ever and now I live in perpetual hell to support it in my project.

[wlockuz]

It certainly feels like an unusual direction to move in, but I have stopped trying to make sense of what goes on in the JS land.

[wvovaw]

Don't ever set Bun as your system command shell....

[VivekYadav-dsoz]

now you have no idea what are the dependencies of this package because it's written in a string.

[NiklasZiermann]

These 'lets just see how much crap I can do with this' videos lately are really enjoyable to watch

[anasouardini]

PHP is staring at bun right now: "really!...."

[laalbujhakkar]

yup! replace a 10mb binary with 3700 node packages so you can write “shell” commands in js - the madness continues!

[BlackAsLight]

This feature seems just like the dax module available in Deno.

[clementdato]

Interesting. More native to the language makes it present a nicer API to the user(Bun user) but it is hard to maintain? It is more like an “illusion” that they allow scripting. More like a very special function that interprets strings very specifically, ideally imitating what shells do

[gryg]

So, we can run php-cli inside js code. Perfect! :)

[abdul-hameedmaree]

"7ms to start a shell, very annoying" I believe if you're not an alien, you will not notice that slowness level

[MarlonEnglemam]

well, no one can deny that the Bun team is working hard on features! I love it. BTW I can't wait for the windows stable version.

[kwyaza]

Still using shell commands, I was hoping for better abstraction. E.g. instead of "grep" - you would import a JS function that does the same, then you just write JS instead of bash.

Python has far better libraries for this. This is only useful - if you have an existing node project and want to keep some sysadmin stuff in the same project instead of .sh files.

[deepakmittal]

Backtick operator in PHP does a very similar thing. Been using PHP to create shell scripts since forever and it's great!

[arkbom]

Bun brought Google ZX to their runtime

[DeuxisWasTaken]

Zsh has a bash compatibility mode, enabled by default when its $0 is "bash" or "-bash". Also macOS moved to it long after it became a popular shell on linux and macs.

[BGTMN]

This is just absolutely insane. Incredibly hype and happy to be alive in this day and age, where we can implement things like this.
Crazy 🔥💯

[TigerWalts]

Imagine if they did this with Nushell's approach to CLI instead of Bash and you got structured data back from your commands instead.