Is Bun the Next Big Thing After Webpack?

bun vs. swc vs. esbuild vs. npm vs. babel etc.

Jose Granja
Better Programming
Published in
7 min readMar 14, 2022

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The future of JavaScript tooling is away from the JavaScript language. Tools like Webpack and Babel are seeing their relevance diminish by the day. Why?

Languages like Rust, Go or even Zig have proven to be more performant than JavaScript for the bundling, transpiling, and compiling process…

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