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Potentially*

Yep

In fact, I was (sort of still am), considering bundling the Rome CLI with my own version of Node/whatever. Would make it easy to use Rome outside of the Node-ecosystem. Would also allow easy distribution. Similar mode to Yarn, available everywhere: homebrew, apr-get, rubygems etc

Interesting! If you don't mind me asking here, will Rome also be pluggable with custom AST transforms? Or is the plan to lock it down to support only stable syntax?

Not sure how to handle plugins. It’s definitely possible and I’m designing everything to allow it. Hard part is figuring out how to expose it without widening the API surface area. Likely wouldn’t be available for any initial open source release (if there is one).

We could work together to build it though!

I'm interested! Understandable that your prioritizing other things first. Let me know when you're ready to collaborate

I’ve learnt my lesson with Babel... it’s really hard to have a powerful plugin API without slowing down internal breaking changes (which are always necessary for progress). One mitigation is to make regular major releases. Small set of external plugins, who can upgrade easily.