Echo JS 0.11.0

Wow, just out of curiosity why can't your users upgrade?

Alternatively use the built-in: util.parseArgs

https://2ality.com/2022/08/node-util-parseargs.html

AI generated nonsense

AI generated slop

Python code with obfuscated code execution in config/config.py

Protocol buffers can be very useful, but are not a silver bullet. https://protobuf.dev/overview/ shows a list of use case where protocol buffers are less optimal.

Even better would be if Node would use webstandards for everything as well. E.g. Deno sockets are webstandard streams, but Node sockets are node streams :-(

Another solution is: https://nodejs.org/docs/latest-v20.x/api/esm.html#importmetadirname

Theoretically its possible, in practice not so much.
Unless you restrict the language to compile a strict subset of javascript.
See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1118138/is-there-a-native-machine-code-compiler-for-javascript/1118185#1118185

see also: https://v8.dev/blog/maglev