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Bun

Every number here is named for what it counts. How each one is measured is on the methodology page.

Fig. 1
Bun's share of Hacker News and Lobsters stories, by month
00.511.5AprMayJunJulAugSept
Bun%

Distinct stories naming the tool, as a percentage of all stories naming any tracked tool. Complete months only.

Fig. 2
New GitHub repos a week: bun
010020030040013 Jul17 Aug7 Sept21 Sept12 Oct19 Oct
bun

Each week's median of the daily snapshots, so one glitched snapshot cannot move the line. Complete weeks only.

Fig. 3
npm downloads a week: bun
02.0M4.0M6.0M6 Jul20 Jul3 Aug17 Aug31 Aug14 Sept28 Sept12 Oct19 Oct
bun

Each week's median of the daily snapshots, so one glitched snapshot cannot move the line. Complete weeks only.

Job ads naming it, by week

Postings in Adzuna's UK IT feed and on RemoteOK whose title or description names Bun. Small counts: read the direction, not the rate.

  1. 10 Aug 2
  2. 17 Aug 0
  3. 24 Aug 0
  4. 31 Aug 0
  5. 7 Sept 0
  6. 14 Sept 0
  7. 21 Sept 0
  8. 28 Sept 0
  9. 5 Oct 0
  10. 12 Oct 0
  11. 19 Oct 0
  12. 26 Oct 0

Biggest stories, last 90 days

  1. Bun 1.4255 pts · 178 comments · 20 Aug
  2. I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times171 pts · 30 comments · 12 Sept
  3. Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good?169 pts · 137 comments · 19 Aug
  4. Show HN: Knitting – A shared-memory concurrency runtime for Node.js,Bun,and Deno10 pts · 4 comments · 13 Oct
  5. Show HN: Carno.js – a Nest-style application framework for Bun6 pts · 1 comments · 19 Aug
  6. Bun rewrite and FLT formalization had nearly identical resource usage5 pts · 1 comments · 7 Sept
  7. Why is bun so disliked?5 pts · 0 comments · 12 Oct
  8. Show HN: S3mini v1 – Tiny and fast S3 client, no-deps, for Node, Bun, Cloudflare4 pts · 0 comments · 6 Aug

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