Show HN: Meow – The 4th and final JavaScript runtime and toolchain

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Show HN: Meow – The 4th and final JavaScript runtime and toolchain.

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Fight me in the comments.But seriously: there are basically exactly 3 serious JS runtimes in the world.

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Because the modern JS ecosystem is a fragmented, bloated nightmare.

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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.

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meow uses V8 for stability and gets Node drop-in compat via deno_node (thanks Deno team).The secret sauce: meow parses your codebase exactly once into an Oxc AST in memory.

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