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Comment by mark_and_sweep | Hacker News Reader

Being using Deno for new projects for years now. Not looking back.

What are the advantages of deno over node?

Not the parent, but one very nice aspect is that an entire working Deno installation is just one file: the actual deno executable.

...when installing via homebrew on Mac you get 3 more files which look like shell-completion definitions:

    bin/deno
    etc/bash_completion.d/deno
    share/fish/vendor_completions.d/deno
    share/zsh/site-functions/_deno

Both Node.js and Bun are also single executables. Node.js doesn't (yet) transpile TS for you, and that's a single dependency away.

Yeah I was confused that the Node installation directory was showing me 18k files in several thousand directories, but these seem to be global npm installs which npm seems to put into the node installation directory (which tbh is weird, I would expect those somewhere in my user directory).

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