Drop readable-streams dependency

[fregante]

stream.Duplex has been available since Node 6.8.0 0.9.4

https://nodejs.org/api/stream.html#duplex-and-transform-streams

[mcollina]

I suspect Duplex was around from 0.10, but that's not the reason why we are using readable-stream here.

The whole point of readable-stream is to normalize the stream dependency a wide array of Node.js versions.

[mcollina]

I think this PR should include a bump to a minimum supported version of node v18 (right now it's v14 for this module).

[fregante]

I don’t think CI failing is due to a bump, it seems GitHub actions is just failing to download Node. Try again:

Attempting to download 14...
Not found in manifest. Falling back to download directly from Node
Error: Unable to find Node version '14' for platform darwin and architecture arm64.

[fregante]

to normalize the stream dependency a wide array of Node.js versions.

I don’t know much on the topic, but the article linked on readable-streams explaining this is exactly 10 years old, I think we’re past the streams 2/3 issues: https://r.va.gg/2014/06/why-i-dont-use-nodes-core-stream-module.html

[jsumners]

I don’t think CI failing is due to a bump, it seems GitHub actions is just failing to download Node. Try again:

Attempting to download 14...
Not found in manifest. Falling back to download directly from Node
Error: Unable to find Node version '14' for platform darwin and architecture arm64.

Seems like some sort of bug:

https://github.com/actions/node-versions/blob/75581b602712663c8c992deca984d30c12624e88/versions-manifest.json#L3232

Far easier to just remove 14 from the matrix.