Bun, an up-and-coming JavaScript runtime, has announced that it has received some backing funding. The announcement noted that Oven , a company formed to support and commercialize the project, has raised $7 million in funding led by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins.
Jarred Sumner , the author of Bun, spent over a year building the project alone in private beta. Today, two months after its release, Bun has more than 32,000 stars on GitHub and 14,000 members on Bun's discord server; a total of more than 100 people have contributed to Bun. "Bun is a very big, ambitious project. It needs more than a full-time job. Bun aims to be more than just a JavaScript runtime. "
Therefore, the announcement generally announced three key points:
- Introducing Oven - the company that will lead the development of Bun, provide hosting services and evolve Bun into an end-to-end solution for JavaScript.
- Oven has raised $7 million in funding led by Bucky at Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Guillermo Rauch, YCombinator's Continuity Fund, and others.
- Oven is hiring.
According to the presentation, Oven's business model will be "fast serverless hosting and continuous integration for back-end and front-end JavaScript applications" powered by Bun. It will support popular front-end frameworks like Next.js, Vite, SvelteKit, SolidStart, and back-end frameworks like Express, Fastify, NestJS, etc.
"Our plan is to run our own servers at the edge of data centers around the world. Oven will leverage end-to-end integration of the entire JavaScript stack, right down to the hardware, to make new things possible."
But before that, the current Bun is still in version 0.1.10, which is not stable and complete enough. Sumner says his goal is to release a stable version of Bun within six months from now; however , that's an impossible job with just him as a full-time employee. Hence, "Oven needs a team".
Oven is hiring systems engineers to help design and build next-generation Internet infrastructure, and the skills required are primarily "low-level systems programming using Zig and C++." At the same time, the company also issued a note saying , "Oven will be a tough job, especially the first nine months or so. If work-life balance means a lot of time spent not working, it may not be suitable."
Interested users can send their resumes and use cases built with Bun to [email protected] .
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