A developer critiques Bun's recent direction under Anthropic ownership, citing quality issues and an expanding feature set that prioritizes performance marketing over stability. With nearly 5,000 open issues despite 100k stars, the author argues that features like Markdown support represent unsustainable scope creep, while platform instability—including unresolved segmentation faults on Windows, macOS, and Linux—undermines Bun's viability as critical infrastructure for developer tools.
Bunmaska is a lightweight alternative to Electron that uses Bun runtime and WebKit instead of Chromium, achieving app sizes of 16-23MB compared to Electron's 150MB+. It offers native TypeScript support, familiar Electron-style APIs, and runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux with minimal dependencies and no build steps for native modules.