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Repo author here. Sorry–maybe not the best choice of words.

By "no bundler, no build system", it kind of means "no webpack, rollup, gulp, etc".

I tend to think of TypeScript as a non-negotiable for any serious project (hopefully I don't get flamed for saying that), so using the build system that's baked into TypeScript means you don't have to rely on yet another tool to handle this.

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I see. I don’t really agree with lumping everything else into “yet another tool”:

- The marginal cost of adding a second tool to your build step is generally lower than adding a build step in the first place

- Tools like esbuild give you both TypeScript compilation and bundling out of the box with zero extra dependencies, so you don’t actually need to add an extra tool to your workflow

- Tools like Vite technically do include extra tools but hide the complexity from you, so from your perspective it’s just a single tool

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