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I think Deno feels a fire under their ass. The JS ecosystem has not really embraced Deno in terms of tooling, libraries or frameworks and the serverless ecosystem has not embraced Deno as a runtime (aws/gcp/azure functions), so they're iterating rapidly to see if they can get something to really stick. And then there's Bun.

I love Deno for system scripting but the friction with the rest of the JS ecosystem has prevented me from adopting it further.

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Their main issue IMO is that they are not really bringing anything major to the table in exchange for the very high cost of breaking compatibility with nodejs. If you are going to create a competing ecosystem it has to be somewhat revolutionary for the cost of investing/migrating to a whole new ecosystem to be worth it.

I like Typescript quite well, but if I'm told I'm going to throw away my nodejs/ts code base and start from scratch, then they are many alternative with better (for many definitions of "better") langages to consider, which at least will actually be different from what I have just thrown away.

> Their main issue IMO is that they are not really bringing anything major to the table in exchange for the very high cost of breaking compatibility with nodejs.

This is why my money is on Bun, just like a safe bet in Carbon. Both are designed to be drop-in-capable in large codebases where the bean counters aren't going to budget a total rewrite that redelivers the same functionality.

In regards to C++ evolution, Circle is a much better bet than something that is a basic AST interpreter.

Agreed. The way to fix that fire, however, is focusing on giving people the closest thing to a solution -- not the tools to build the closest thing to a solution.

For deno that would be fresh (the framework). And the speed of development is just not there, compared to the competitors (but everything has trouble keeping up with next right now)

Netlify edge workers use only Deno

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