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