Emerging JavaScript runtime Bun announced that it had secured some support funding. The announcement states,A company formed to support and commercialize the project Oven has raised $7 million in funding fromVenture capital institutions Kleiner Perkins led the round.

Author of Bun Jarred Sumner It took over a year to build 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 large, ambitious project. It requires more than a full-time job.Bun targets more than just a JavaScript runtime.“

Therefore, the announcement generally announced three key points:

• Introducing Oven to everyone – The company will lead the development of Bun, provide hosting services and develop Bun into an end-to-end solution for JavaScript.
• Oven has raised $7 million in fundingled by Bucky at Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Guillermo Rauch, YCombinator’s Continuity Fund, and others.
• Oven is hiring.

According to the introduction,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, not stable and complete enough. Sumner said his goal is to have a stable Bun release within six months from now; howeverIf only he was a full-time employee, this would be an impossible job. 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 warm remindersay“Oven is going to be a tough job, especially the first nine months or so. If work-life balance means a lot of time spent not working, it might not be the right fit.”

Interested users can send their resumes and use cases built with Bun to jobs@oven.sh.

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