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Comment by cabernal

2 days ago

there could be recommended runtimes, but shouldn’t the runtime be user-configurable anyway?

There is no generic “JavaScript runtime” interface that runtimes would implement, therefore support must be tailored to the specific interfaces of existing runtimes.

  • At one point we had UMD[0], which effectively provided runtime-agnostic interface, but ES modules were incompatible with that.

    Deno and Bun have decent Node compatibility, so couldn't Node APIs be used as the generic runtime interface?

    [0]: https://github.com/umdjs/umd