denoland/deno vs oven-sh/bun

deno and bun split it 2–2 on popularity and shipping momentum. Numbers straight from GitHub.Stats only — numbers straight from GitHub, no AI verdict.

denoland/denoRust

🚀Rocketship

A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.

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2–2

dead heat

oven-sh/bunRust

🚀Rocketship

Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one

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Round by round

Stars·
Forks·
·Shipped last 4 weeks
·Commits last year

The commentary

Deno dominates the momentum game

denoland/deno takes this round convincingly, winning on stars, forks, and recent shipping velocity—the true markers of adoption and active development. oven-sh/bun shows grit with more commits over the past year, but Deno's consistent edge in visibility and release cadence keeps it firmly in the lead.

AI-generated from the stats below.

Head to head

Shape of the matchup

Each axis is scaled to the bigger of the two — the leader always reaches the edge. It shows who leads on each dimension, not by how much; hover an axis (or read the bars) for the real numbers.

denobun

Stars
108.3k
95.5k
Forks

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Days since last push

6.3k

5.0k

Shipped last 4 weeks

158

876

Commits last year

3.1k

4.1k

Days since last push

today

Lines of code (est.)not scored

1.1m

2.1m

Open issuesnot scored

1.5k

8.2k

Languagesnot scored

Bars are scaled within each row — they compare the two repos on that metric, not across metrics. Size rows (lines of code, open issues, languages) are facts, not victories, so they are never scored. Shipping counts show “—” while GitHub warms its weekly stats cache.

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The commentary

Deno dominates the momentum game

AI-generated from the stats below.