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Show HN: Meow – The 4th and final JavaScript runtime and toolchain
Yes, I said final. Fight me in the comments. But seriously: there are basically exactly 3 serious JS runtimes in the world. (Now 4... or 1, idk). Why? Because the modern JS ecosystem is a fragmented, bloated nightmare. Node, pnpm, tsc, eslint, prettier, vite. Each spins up its own V8 instance, parses your codebase from scratch, and leaves a graveyard of .json configs in your root directory. meow squishes it all into one cute 82MB binary. It’s a drop-in Node replacement, ultra-fast packa
