Ant

Category

Developer Tools

Launched

July 11, 2026

Website

antjs.org

Ant is a JavaScript runtime and ecosystem that aims to be fast, secure, and developer friendly. It provides a drop in replacement for Node.js with improved cold start performance (5.4 ms vs Node's 31.1 ms in a benchmark), native TypeScript support without a build step, and a package manager that installs dependencies up to 40x faster than npm. Ant also includes a unique VM isolated sandbox for running untrusted code, using KVM or Hypervisor.framework for hardware level isolation. The ecosystem includes an open registry at ants.land that speaks the npm protocol, allowing seamless publishing and installation of packages.