ts-node/dist-raw/runmain-hack.js

const {pathToFileURL} = require('url');

// Hack to avoid Module.runMain on node 18.6.0
// Keeping it simple for now, isolated in this file.
// Could theoretically probe `getFormat` impl to determine if `import()` or `Module._load()` is best
// Note that I attempted a try-catch around `Module._load`, but it poisons some sort of cache such that subsequent `import()` is impossible.
exports.run = function(entryPointPath) {
  import(pathToFileURL(entryPointPath));
}