Reports of Node's death are greatly exaggerated

Amal, KBall & Chris convene a “semi-emergency” pod to discuss the recent (deserved) hype over Bun and what it all means for Node’s community, maintainers & users. They’re joined by Node Technical Steering Committee members Matteo Collina & James Snell who are here to dispel Bun antagonism rumors, discuss the pros & cons of each runtime, explain how Node continues to thrive & even announce a VERY big upcoming feature!

Amal, KBall & Chris convene a “semi-emergency” pod to discuss the recent (deserved) hype over Bun and what it all means for Node’s community, maintainers & users.

They’re joined by Node Technical Steering Committee members Matteo Collina & James Snell who are here to dispel Bun antagonism rumors, discuss the pros & cons of each runtime, explain how Node continues to thrive & even announce a VERY big upcoming feature!

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Featuring:

Matteo Collina – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteJames Snell – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAmal Hussein – Twitter, GitHubKevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteChristopher Hiller – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Matteo’s tweet on Jarred Summer’s obsession with performance optimizations
Bun’s claim to being a “drop in-replacement for Node.js”
Platformatic 1.0 release annoucement
AWS lambda quatas
Node TODO - your guide to getting started with Node.js Core development
Node.js’s new built-in test runner
Node.js project governance
Matteos recent newsletter which Amal magically connected with in the future - “My thoughts on Bun and other Adventures”
fastify - “Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js”
OpenJS foundation
Soon to be released PR for adding the new WebSocket lib to Node Core
Node.js supported binaries
Node.js github issue #19308 “Adding Websocket support to core” which is 5+ years old and coincidentally closed on the day this podcast was released

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!