Moving to Bun

[VictorVSa]

Bun 1.0.0 was released on September 8 2023. (https://bun.sh)

By watching their release video and their blog post, it is clearly apparent the pros of this new piece of software that completely replaces Node.js, in a drop-in way.

There are some incompatibilities, as they say, and I'm not sure if those applies for shadow-cljs, but would it be worth a try?

I've made some tests myself and, for me, it's in a completely different league. It will be very quickly adopted in my opinion.

Could we start looking into either replacing node/npm entirely to use Bun or support using one or the other by a configuration option?

[thheller]

What do you expect shadow-cljs would gain from that? node/npm is just a delivery mechanism, it is basically not used after that once delivered. If its truly drop-in then you can just use it today with no changes necessary to shadow-cljs. I even expect build ouputs such as :node-script or :esm to just work.