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by turboponyy 338 days ago
> While I can jump through hoops to compile JavaScript into a binary, such wouldn't feel "solid". And the very point of writing a native program in the first place is to make it feel solid

You can use Bun to compile to native binaries without jumping through hoops. It's not mature, but it works well enough that we use it at work.

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It's definitely nice for certain use cases. I just wish the binaries weren't so huge (~60MB + your actual source code).