sobek

It’s purely ecosystem at this point. Deno, Bun, any runtime is more modern. It’s nice they are catching up but by the time typescript is a native citizen in node, others may take the crown. The codebase is ooof. That said, there’s something to be said about being the first mover and having the ecosystem so node isn’t going away anytime soon, nor is the npm/npx ecosystem. Go has the ability to, with a goja fork [1], to execute ESM but you would still need to transpile using another go tool to run it. I have such a runtime but it’s nowhere near as fast as bun or deno. I use it mainly so I can have agents do my local bidding. [1] https://github.com/grafana/sobek

Meanwhile I'm trying to adapt ESM only packages to CJS since Goja (JS runtime library for Go) doesn't have ESM support. [1] And yes I know that Grafana has a fork called Sobek that has ESM support, but it is tailored for k6 and they don't have plans for making it easier to use. [2] [1] https://github.com/dop251/goja/issues/348 [2] https://github.com/grafana/sobek/issues/49

I just dug through a lot of the issues and PRs in Goja, and eventually found that the grafana/k6 team recently forked Goja as Sobek [1], because the Goja dev has not been able to dedicate sufficient time to their PRs - namely ES Modules support [2], which was one of the only modern (ES6+) JS features outstanding [3] So, Sobek seems to be the way forward... [1] https://github.com/grafana/sobek/ [2] https://github.com/dop251/goja/pull/430 [3] https://github.com/dop251/goja/milestone/1