[vendiddy]

The diffs look beautiful. One suggestion to the author be to bundle this as a self-contained binary. This would have a huge impact on whether I want to install it.

For this, I would look into Deno, which supports self contained binaries with typescript. I've never tried it myself so not sure how much work this would be.

[milkbikis]

Yeah I looked into bundling and deno, but neither of those seemed palatable at this point. Deno’s ecosystem is still quite small, so I’d have to implement things like syntax highlighting from scratch which is not feasible. Other bundling options don’t seem all that reliable / popular and they aren’t really solving the actual issue of untrusted dependencies. So my current take is to just use node and be very conservative with dependencies.