Malmö Node.js Development Meetup Group

Bun: The new JavaScript runtime that is generating extreme hype

Name: Bun: The new JavaScript runtime that is generating extreme hype
Start: 2023-10-04T17:30:00+0200
End: 2023-10-04T20:00:00+0200
Location: Slagthuset

Bun is a new JavaScript runtime that is generating a lot of excitement in the developer community. It is designed to be fast, lightweight, and efficient, and it offers a number of features that are not available in other JavaScript runtimes.
In this talk, we will discuss the following topics:

What is Bun?
How does Bun compare to other JavaScript runtimes?
What are the features of Bun?
How to use Bun to build web applications
The future of Bun
We will also take a look at some of the benchmarks that have been done with Bun, which show that it is significantly faster than other JavaScript runtimes.

By the end of this talk, you will have a good understanding of what Bun is and how it can be used to build fast and efficient web applications.

Speaker:

Álvaro Agámez - is a senior software engineer, Node.js Malmö organizer and technical writer from Colombia who currently lives and works in Malmö, for the IKEA group. Álvaro has worked as a software developer since 2005 in different technologies and JavaScript has always been in his heart even several years before, as part of a project at his university and in previous professional projects and everything that surrounds the JavaScript ecosystem is really exciting for him. Since 2023 he has been a FooCoding tutor in everything related to JavaScript but with a focus on Node.js.