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I am not saying deno does not have benefits. I am saying you can get many of those things with node already. I see deno more and more as an opinionated set of things + node. This is not a bad thing.

but if you already have a huge legacy node project why would you switch to deno? or are we all going to pretend to forget why Deno was even created?

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Yep. I saw Deno as intended to be a platform for new projects that want to start fresh without all the legacy cruft from Node. Somewhere along the way they decided it was a priority to be able to transition legacy Node projects to Deno, and I'm afraid that what's going to happen is it will freeze the ecosystem's development of independent solutions in favor of just using Node libraries for everything.

I don't think this will happen. People _love_ cutting edge innovation. Cutting edge innovation happens on cutting edge platforms, not in the legacy.

I disagree. people love a robust ecosystem, not innovation for innovation's sake.

I think you are both right. Some people love innovation, others love stability.

Yes, everybody loves innovation, until they realize, that stability saves much lifetime.

>People _love_ cutting edge innovation.

Only the people who like having to rewrite everything with every breaking change that happens on cutting edge platforms. It's not all that fun for most people. I'll wait until "new shiny" isn't as new and shiny, when it finally becomes stable and dependable. Until then the current stable platform is what I'll continue building on because it still does everything I need it to do.

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