Would such versions be much slimmer? Most of the binary is the V8 engine. The compatibility layers are largely thin wrappers around APIs. Anyway, it does strik

Would such versions be much slimmer? Most of the binary is the V8 engine. The compatibility layers are largely thin wrappers around APIs. Anyway, it does strike me as an odd pursuit regardless. Obviously they're seeing compatibility as opening the door for more potential customers. But as a dev, if I wanted Node compat I'd just use Node.