In the JavaScript ecosystem, check out Deno. Built in formatting, type checking, test runner, benchmarker, and dependency management via web standards. Minimalism is pretty core to their philosophy.
Have you had a good experience with it?
For example, I think Deno is an excellent alternative to Node for general purpose scripting, but that doesn’t require production readiness.
On the other hand, platforms like Slack[1] and Netlify[2] are betting on Deno for their next generation developer platforms. These platforms are still considered beta, but I think that’s a decent indicator to track status of production readiness.
- [1]: https://api.slack.com/future
- [2]: https://www.netlify.com/blog/announcing-serverless-compute-w...