Bun

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 3 years (2023–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Bun, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 4 complaints

Bun-specific features feel like afterthoughts and its documentation is far worse than Node's2025-08-17
REPL breaks when offline because it expects daily online updates2024-04-26
Frequent compatibility breakages stop the user running their app fully on Bun2024-04-02
Install hangs at the Tailwind CSS prompt with no feedback or progress2023-08-28