What does this offer as an alternative to node? I’m looking at the supported platforms page and the list is essentially the same as the node ones… does it have a wasm target? An embedded target? What’s new here?
Bare itself only adds a few missing pieces on top to support a wider ecosystem of modules:
1. A module system supporting both CJS and ESM with bidirectional interoperability between the two.
2. A native addon system supporting both statically and dynamically linked addons.
3. Light-weight thread support with synchronous joins and shared array buffer support.
Everything else if left to userland modules to implement using these primitives, keeping the runtime itself succinct and bare.
If i understand correctly bare can instead use much smaller engines like quickjs (and maybe libjs), but I'm not sure how the stdlib situation is for those.
As you pointed out it's hard to determine why Bare other than it isn't Node.