This article describes my journey building the Bun JavaScript toolkit without relying on any of its usual binary dependencies— namely itself. It all started when I wanted to try OpenCode for LLM-assisted coding. I found that it wasn’t easy to install—my distro packaged neither OpenCode itself, nor Bun, the JavaScript runtime used by OpenCode. The aur didn’t come to the rescue either as the latest revision of the Bun package failed to build. Note: Bun was packaged for Arch Linux on 2025-12-30...