There are a lot selling points. To me, the main one is typescript with no build.
yarn global add ts-node prettier
echo 'alias deno="ts-node"' >> ~/.zshrc
echo 'alias deno-fmt="prettier --write"' >> ~/.zshrc
Deno provides a standard library, good defaults, top-level async-await, doesn't break browser compatibility, better API to integrate with runtime.Internals are nicer but that's with anything without ugly legacy.
They are working to get node_modules work in deno so I am kind of worried that it will be nodev2 all over.