[kwhitley]

Yeah, definitely recommend you try it before discounting... I too have been super jaded with the current Node import ecosystem (esp. as an author), but Bun has basically become something of a silver bullet, with some small exceptions.

If I want, I can literally run a TS file directly with mixed import/require (not that you would ever) directly, without a package.json, tsconfig, dependencies, etc.

In my experience, it's basically Node, minus all the setup/config/build headaches.