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deno vs bun on Hacker News

Across 2007–2026 of Hacker News, deno leads deno vs bun with 8,965 mentions to bun’s 7,028, peaking in May 2020.

Mention-over-time for deno vs bun, overlaid across 2007–2026 of Hacker News. Each line is a live date-histogram over ~45M posts and comments, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

deno8,965 mentions, peak May 2020bun7,028 mentions, peak Nov 2025
2008201120142017202020232026
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How the lead changed hands

Node-alternative race: Deno is the buzzy replacement 2020–22, then Bun grabs the spotlight from 2023 onward.

The stories behind each line

Top “deno” stories
  1. Deno 1.0 2,081 points · 2020
  2. The Deno Company 883 points · 2021
  3. Deno 1.9 670 points · 2021
  4. Deno 1.6 supports compiling TypeScript to a single executable 657 points · 2020
Top “bun” stories
  1. Anthropic acquires Bun 2,192 points · 2025
  2. Bun: Fast JavaScript runtime, transpiler, and NPM client written in Zig 1,431 points · 2022
  3. Show HN: PGlite – in-browser WASM Postgres with pgvector and live sync 509 points · 2024
  4. Bun 1.1 462 points · 2024

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