nodejs
feat: add -w option as an alias to --watch
With this pull request, node -w also will be activate watch mode alongside node --watch.
@anonrig still looking for failed checks but I couldn't find the problem yet. Tests are done in Windows but not in Unix like OSs. Which files should I look?
No strong opinion on this. FWIW, as far as I am aware, we haven't added single-letter options in years. Some years ago, someone added a short option for --conditions, but that had to be reverted, and eventually was re-added three years ago using capital -C to avoid using up lowercase letters (see https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/38755). Other than that, I don't think we've added any short options in at least five years. In my personal opinion, there are some useful short options (-p, -e), but other than that, the better readability of long options almost always outweighs saving a few keystrokes.
You may be right. But for example in tsc I'm used to using the -w flag, like tsc -w -p ., so I tried node -w a few times accidentally. That's why I opened this pull request.
From a developer point of view using -w can be positive, but as @tniessen said, I agree that long description is good for readability, I think we should evaluate this issue according to the need.
