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Alternatively, this may be Deno’s “Dip”: A tough period of time before continued gains and small breakthroughs that build up over time to a new plateau. Maybe all new creative projects will have this as a part of their journey. I am confident Ryan Dahl is unlikely to give up, and is aware (and working to become more aware) of what is necessary to improve for deno to achieve the vision he has for it.

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Dahl doesn't strike me as a business or product person. He's a genius when left to tinker. I get the impression Deno is floundering because of business/VC pressure. I see the original promise of Deno being compromised in an effort to increase users/customers. The project is no longer focused on just making a good JS runtime.

Deno's original positioning was as a second version of NodeJS without the learning cruft cluttering the environment. To that extent I think Dahl and his team was successful.

As is so often the case, once you introduce MBAs/VCs, the focus shifts to ROI and fast. I see Deno Deploy as being part of that attempt.

People still tend to forget that software development tools are not commercially viable. For a long time we have become spoilt for choice with ever more and improving tools.

I read the post from a business lens and an outside observer and this was my hope too. If Deno is buckling down and cutting costs in order to survive a long winter and carry on that seems like the right move for the business and the community at the expense of latency.

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