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In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Jared Sumner about why and how he created Bun, what Zig is, and the future of Bun.

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Show Notes

• 00:37 Welcome
• 01:44 Who is Jared Sumner?
• Jarred Sumner on Twitter
• Bun
• Bun Discord
• Bun on GitHub
• 02:31 Why did you make Bun?
• 09:43 Using web API vs Node modules?
• 13:25 Do we still use npm?
• 15:42 Support for HTML Rewriter
• 16:46 Where do you see Bun being used?
• 19:25 Do you think someone will write a type checker?
• 21:18 Sponsor: Tuple
• 22:07 What is Zig?
• 24:57 Did you have a history of learning languages?
• 28:16 Have you ever thought of putting Bun on hardware?
• 29:59 Is there a package.json file in Bun projects?
• 31:34 What can\\u2019t Node just get faster?
• 32:16 What is the future of Bun?
• 36:27 Thoughts on types in JavaScript?
• 41:16 Why did you build an SQLite client into Bun?
• 42:54 Supper Club questions
• Starship
• Warp
• 48:52 SIIIIICK \\xd7\\xd7\\xd7 PIIIICKS \\xd7\\xd7\\xd7

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