This will ship as part of the Bun v1.2.19 release, which we are aiming for tonight.
There is a Windows-only bug in the isolated install mode blocking us from using isolated installs ourselves in the bun repo, and we need to fix that before we can release this.
If you want to try this early, you can run `bun upgrade --canary` and `bun install --linker=isolated` or put `install.linker = "isolated"` in bunfig.toml.
Isolated installs are a significant performance improvement on Windows (10x, sometimes 20x faster installs) and a minor positive or neutral performance impact on macOS and Linux. More importantly, they make using bun install in monorepos a lot more reliable by preventing dependencies from loading versions of other dependencies they did not specify in their own package.json.
Happy to answer any questions about Bun
gedy•4h ago
Bun is great, keep up the good work!
8n4vidtmkvmk•3h ago
Cool. Bun is already pretty fast on Windows, but I welcome more improvements. Thanks for all the great work!
FYI, there seems to be some bugs with installs yet that cause bun to crash. Might be related to having an old package-lock or old node_modules or switching back and forth between WSL and Windows proper. Bun just crashes. Deleting all lock files (bun and npms) and node modules usually fixes it.
jpgvm•22m ago
Would it be possible to make the default behavior of the isolated linker "nohoist" the same as pnpm?
dsabanin•4h ago
Really loving Bun these days. Was really pleasantly surprised using their shell scripting API in typescript - single file, shebang line, straightforward DSL, support for piping data here and there.
Really, really nice and ergonomic. Made a few utility scripts today and enjoyed it much better than bash.
It is also my first choice now. Especially due to built in SQLite support. Also recently needed to write a simple script to dump some data to S3. Found out that bun has built in s3 client too...
papichulo2023•3h ago
Recently I migrated some small bash scripts to Js thanks to bunjs, chose it because its simplicity, speed and nice out-of-the-box features (db scripts without external deps). Quite happy with it, now I dont to relearn bash syntax every few months when I need to do some minor changes. Also, Javascript is prob the language that llvms understand the best which is a cool thing on these days.
markl42•1m ago
Can someone explain what this does differently to the status quo under the hood?
Jarred•4h ago
There is a Windows-only bug in the isolated install mode blocking us from using isolated installs ourselves in the bun repo, and we need to fix that before we can release this.
If you want to try this early, you can run `bun upgrade --canary` and `bun install --linker=isolated` or put `install.linker = "isolated"` in bunfig.toml.
Isolated installs are a significant performance improvement on Windows (10x, sometimes 20x faster installs) and a minor positive or neutral performance impact on macOS and Linux. More importantly, they make using bun install in monorepos a lot more reliable by preventing dependencies from loading versions of other dependencies they did not specify in their own package.json.
Happy to answer any questions about Bun
gedy•4h ago
8n4vidtmkvmk•3h ago
FYI, there seems to be some bugs with installs yet that cause bun to crash. Might be related to having an old package-lock or old node_modules or switching back and forth between WSL and Windows proper. Bun just crashes. Deleting all lock files (bun and npms) and node modules usually fixes it.
jpgvm•22m ago