Cross-runtime compatibility¶
fuckingnode compat [item]
What we mean by Cross-runtime
While we always use the term "cross-runtime", we also include cross-platform (Golang and Rust) support inside of that term.
While FuckingNode can be a very powerful automation tool if properly used, in the end it's just an executable that automates tasks; it doesn't do much on its own. Thus, features that aren't supported by a runtime itself, won't work with us. (Adding "polyfills" or "glue fixes" is not discarded as an idea, but not planned short-term anyway).
You can run compat anytime from the CLI to see a table showing what works and what doesn't. NodeJS is the only environment with 100% platform support. As of version 3.3.1, that table looks like this:
| Feature | NodeJS | Deno | Bun | Go | Cargo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleanup | Yes | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial |
| Kickstart | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Commit | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial |
| Release | npm | jsr | npm | No | No |
| Stats | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes |
| Surrender | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Setup | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Audit | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Launch | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Reasons for not supporting a feature are the following.
Partial Deno, Bun, Cargo & Go support for cleanup¶
In all these runtimes, the kind of cleanup commands we'd use (prune, dedupe...) aren't available, so the cleanup itself isn't available.
clean will still work with them, as linting, prettification, or updates do work.
No Deno support for hard cleanup¶
FuckingNode itself is written in Deno, thus we're disallowed by the runtime from cleaning its cache. While a "gluefix" exists, it doesn't work most of the time.
No Cargo & Go support for release¶
We might add them in the future, for now they're not supported because they're harder to implement (as more steps are required).
Partial Cargo & Go support for commit¶
commitCmd is not supported by these platforms. This is because Cargo and Go don't have "JS-like run" tasks.
Partial Go support for stats¶
Golang do support it but doesn't support the Recommended Community Standards part. go.mod doesn't have any field that can be compared to anything. No module name, no author, no license, etc...
No Cargo & Go support for migrate¶
There's a single package manager for these platforms, migrate is useless.
No audit support anywhere non NodeJS¶
Deno and Bun do not offer an audit command, neither do Go nor Cargo.