The 'bun.exe' file is a placeholder for the binary file, which is replaced by Bun's 'postinstall' script. For this to work, make sure that you do not use --ignore-scripts while installing. The postinstall script is responsible for linking the binary file directly into 'node_modules/.bin' and avoiding a Node.js wrapper script being called on every invocation of 'bun'. If this wasn't done, Bun would seem to be slower than Node.js, because it would be executing a copy of Node.js every time! Unfortunately, it is not possible to fix all cases on all platforms without *requiring* a postinstall script.