I get it, there are heaps of NodeJS systems out there. Both Deno & Bun claim to be an improvement over NodeJS and then invest masses of time to be compatible with it.
I never liked NodeJS and I would much rather prefer a clean room JS environment with absolutely no explicit NodeJS compatability. 100% support for Web API specs would suffice.
Why can't Deno or Bun release a slim version and then a compatability preserving version for those folks who require it?
Would such versions be much slimmer? Most of the binary is the V8 engine. The compatibility layers are largely thin wrappers around APIs.
Anyway, it does strike me as an odd pursuit regardless. Obviously they're seeing compatibility as opening the door for more potential customers. But as a dev, if I wanted Node compat I'd just use Node.
I never liked NodeJS and I would much rather prefer a clean room JS environment with absolutely no explicit NodeJS compatability. 100% support for Web API specs would suffice.
Why can't Deno or Bun release a slim version and then a compatability preserving version for those folks who require it?