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layer8 20 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Bun support is now limited and deprecated

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

sheept 20 days ago [–]

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

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