Theoretically if you just used a runtime that didn't depend on code being transpiled and transformed a million times over (e.g deno) you could just run your damn code. It would even work in the browser, if you used `import/export` syntax instead of `require/module.exports`.

I don't buy the argument that the existence of separate binaries for the typescript compiler, test runner, packaging system, etc. is somehow unbearably confusing, I would almost prefer that over certain other languages where one magic command does it all. Although if you like that, you could try `bun`.