Comment by genshii

Fair, but I think the JavaScript ecosystem is unique in that the language is very separate from the thing that executes/compiles it. When you write Go, 99.9% of the time you're writing for the Go compiler.

When you write JavaScript (or TypeScript that gets transpiled), it's not as easy to assume the target is Node (V8). It could be Bun (JavaScriptCore), Deno, a browser, etc.