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Deno continues to impress me. It’s honestly been quite a while since I started a new project without it. It has fully won my support over Node.js, the ecosystem has really matured nicely. I don’t know how often I’ll use this feature, but it’s really nice to have the option!

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yes the big win from this is the Node API / NAPI support , if you write node_modules in nodejs , electron , raycast , edgejs you can reuse it .

https://wasmer.io/posts/edgejs-safe-nodejs-using-wasm-sandbo...

"NAPI allows native Node dependencies to target Node without actually depending on a specific version of Node or V8. NAPI abstracted the V8 JS engine away, by providing JS-like APIs for: creating an object, declaring a property, etc.

NAPI is the contract that all modern native Node modules use to interact with Javascript." [1]

1: https://wasmer.io/posts/edgejs-safe-nodejs-using-wasm-sandbo...

I'm still using node/npm and it's... fine. Every so often I read these posts and think I should change but node/npm is already a low friction part of my workflow.

However, what I have seen is that a lot of other libraries I use have switched to Bun. I haven't seen any that switched to Deno, and so I've been under the impression that Bun is becoming a strong node replacement candidate while Deno is not, or at least that the community is making a strong preference for Bun. Anyone have more insight into this?

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