Provide native executable

[matthewadams]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I use asdf to manage my node versions. I want to have inshellisense available across all of my versions. As it stands, I have to run npm install -g @microsoft/inshellisense for each version of node that I install. It'd be easer if you used bun or similar to provide a native executable that I could use independently of my current node runtimes.

Describe the solution you'd like
I want to be able to run inshellisense no matter which version of node that is currently on my path.

Describe alternatives you've considered
npx inshellisense

Additional context
None.

[cpendery]

Hey @matthewadams, I'll look into options to provide this. I'm familiar with pkg, but I'll look into bun's --compile flag as well.

[tnfssc]

@matthewadams @cpendery, I made something like this a while ago. Here's the code to build the binaries https://github.com/tnfssc/inshellisense-bin

[cpendery]

Just a follow up here, most of the projects like caxa or pkg have been deprecated with Node 21's support of sea. node-pty; however, only supports Node 18 officially (with Node 16 & 20 making the cut, but not 21). As a result, there isn't a good solution for building a native executable via Node. Bun might work in the future, but for now, node-pty doesn't support Bun (see microsoft/node-pty#632).

[cpendery]

Closing as duplicate of #199