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Bun

Bun is an incredibly fast all-in-one toolkit for building, installing, running, and testing JavaScript and TypeScript. We were born out of frustration with the fragmented, slow JavaScript ecosystem and are on a mission to make JavaScript development faster and more productive.

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Bun is an incredibly fast all-in-one toolkit for building, installing, running, and testing JavaScript and TypeScript. We were born out of frustration with the fragmented, slow JavaScript ecosystem and are on a mission to make JavaScript development faster and more productive.

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match 41

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shared product terms: fast, test, slow, development; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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shared product terms: fast, out, development, faster; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Foundation Industries

match 33

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shared product terms: fast, out, faster, productive; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Baserun

match 33

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shared product terms: incredibly, test, development, faster; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

RunKit

match 29

RunKit is the best tool for prototyping server-side JavaScript. RunKit notebooks remove the friction of trying new ideas. With one click, you'll have a sandboxed JavaScript environment where you can instantly switch node versions, use every npm module without having to wait to install it, and even visualize your results.

shared extracted concepts: javascript; shared product terms: install, javascript; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Emdash

match 25

Agent-first development environment. Emdash enables engineering teams to develop software faster, by running multiple coding agents in parallel. We're an open-source and provider-agnostic desktop application.

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