JAjanandonly·May 28, 2026Submission
Bare: Small and modular JavaScript runtime for desktop and mobile
2 points · Open discussionholepunchto
bare
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holepunchto / bare
bare
Small and modular JavaScript runtime for desktop and mobile
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Small and modular JavaScript runtime for desktop and mobile
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Observed mentions: 2025-04-02 17:05:19 UTC to 2026-05-28 13:39:53 UTC.
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| Apr 2025 | 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| May 2025 | 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2025 | 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2025 | 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2025 | 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2025 | 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Oct 2025 | 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2025 | 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2025 | 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2026 | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2026 | 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2026 | 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Apr 2026 | 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2026 | 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
6 sourcesBare: Small and modular JavaScript runtime for desktop and mobile
1 points · Open discussionAFAIK, "Holepunch" is the overall project which is all open source. It is composed of https://docs.pears.com/ , https://github.com/holepunchto/libpear which runs on https://github.com/holepunchto/bare/ which runs on a V8 interface to libuv.
And, then Hypercore, Hyperbee, Hyperdrive, Autobase, etc are all modules you need to get things done so you can make an app like their serverless Zoom clone https://keet.io/
In A cryptography expert on how Web3 started, and how it’s goingBare, a small and modular JavaScript runtime
5 points · Open discussionFrom their README [1]:
Bare itself only adds a few missing pieces on top to support a wider ecosystem of modules:
1. A module system supporting both CJS and ESM with bidirectional interoperability between the two.
2. A native addon system supporting both statically and dynamically linked addons.
3. Light-weight thread support with synchronous joins and shared array buffer support.
Everything else if left to userland modules to implement using these primitives, keeping the runtime itself succinct and bare.
[1]: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare#architecture
In Bare: Run JavaScript EverywhereThat is pear.
This is bare https://github.com/holepunchto/bare
In Bare: Run JavaScript Everywhere