When will be a Windows release?

[Bellisario]

I'm really excited about Bun, but at the moment I only have a Windows 7 computer (that doesn't even support WSL)...
Will be a Windows release? If yes, when? (I can't wait for it 😜)

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CC: @Jarred-Sumner

[Cristiano100]

There will be a windows release for bun, but there is no time estimation.
As per the roadmap

[kosperera]

For the moment, the only way to use bun is to have WSL. However, the easiest way to do that is to have a development container, like VS Code - Remote Container.

This is all I had to do:

1. Ensure the device supports Virtualization and Hyper-V is enabled.
2. Install Docker CLI or Docker Desktop or Rancher Desktop (Opensource)
3. Install WSL 2 + Ubuntu distro

I need this to use Linux-based containers, or else I'll end up only with windows-based containers.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/setup/environment

4. Install VS Code + Docker and Remote - Container extensions

I already had these installed since I do most of the .NET and JS stuff on dev containers

5. Fork or use https://github.com/alertbox/try-bun to create a copy of the quick-starter project

This is a template repo so I didn't have to Fork it. I just used the Use this template feature in GitHub.

6. Clone the newly copied/forked repo

# example
$ gh repo clone <repo-name>
$ # Or
$ # git clone https://github.com/<username>/<repo-name>

7. Open the code in VS Code

VS Code automatically recognizes the dev container and prompts you to Reopen in Container.

8. Once loaded, spin up a New Terminal in VS Code
9. Type $ bun run test-project/server.js

Spin up my favorite browser to visit http://localhost:3000

[Zamiell]

Note that WSL2 has a lot of performance problems on Windows. The speedups that you get from Bun may be vastly outweighed by the super slow file-system calls (if your WSL has to access files from your "real" Windows drives).

[kosperera]

This worked for me on Windows via WSL2 using Dev containers, the latest versions of both. See @alertbox/dcosify-footer