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I'm not deep in Node world but I use it and see it being used, who is using Deno out there? Have there been some notable/major ship jumps? Or is it not that kind of situation (perception from when it came on the scene is that's exactly what it is, constantly trying to woo Node devs over). And also there's alot of recognizable brand competition out there from things like Cloudflare, Netlify (but they're an investor in this?), Vercel on fire the last year or two, and not to mention the big FAANG types. Again, who's using this?

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Netlify, Supabase and Slack whitelabelling Deno Deploy for starters, I'm sure there are others out there self-hosting as well

See now that's interesting - All of those have very out-there brand reach and recognition but who knew they were using Deno, nobody heh. Okay, then, so it's a bit under the radar but ticking away down there, hence the raise. Fairplay.

If you're not following those companies' offerings then it stands to reason you haven't heard about it but all three of them did broadcast pretty widely that they were using Deno, I would assume quite a few people were aware of this.

yup, can confirm nothing about it was hidden (good on them, but better for deno)

I think it's still pretty early days but it's clearly far superior to Node so I think we'll see more and more people use it.

The biggest barrier is the library ecosystem. JS's insane packaging history means a lot of NPM libraries don't work seamlessly with Deno even if they don't use Node APIs.

I imagine you are already aware, but the creator of Node, Ryan Dahl, is also the creator for Deno. He is trying to create a new language which integrates what he learned from building Node.

New language or new runtime?

It's all JavaScript, so language is probably not the right word to use. Runtime is correct, but both technically sit on top of V8. Although Node leverages C++ on the backend, and Deno leverages Rust.

Thanks that clears it up for me

Slack is the biggest I know of https://deno.com/blog/slack

From my horizon the most significant adoption has been Netlify edge functions. So not exactly ship jumping, but adjacent and growing spaces.

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