The more I learn about how it imports external/third-party code [1] the more I like it. It's got none of the hangups of NPM. No package.json nonsense (there are great script runners if you need them), and no cruft when importing external code (e.g. no need for yarnclean). The registry they do maintain is unique and immutable, which I was not sold on until I had this discussion [2]. I do still think they need some more guidance around how that works, and some contingencies in the event of bad actors, but it's just as good as NPM's registry imho. Native TS is a nice convenience for projects which call for it, and compiling is much more streamlined than bolting it onto a project yourself. It's worth noting that it does support plain JS, just the ESM flavor. And last but not least is the stdlib, which roughly aims to prevent the need for a million one-line packages spread out across the registry. Network throughput performance is impressive to say the least, and with leveraging Rust I can only see that getting better. The more I learn about Deno the more that I'm liking it.

[1] https://deno.land/manual/linking_to_external_code [2] https://github.com/denoland/deno/discussions/11809#discussio...