If you like Node.js but not its package manager npm, or you want a more secure JavaScript runtime environment than Node.js, you might find the new open source project Deno of interest (the word Deno is an anagram of Node). On the other hand, if you’re using Node.js in production, there’s nothing to see here, move along – Deno is still “very much under development.”

Deno is a new runtime for Javascript and Typescript created by Ryan Dahl – the original creator of Node.js. In his famous talk “10 Things I Regret About Node.js” given in 2018 he listed some of the Node.js design mistakes. Deno is supposed to fix these problems. Through this talk I will show you the core features of Deno and compare it with Node.js, using code examples. Then I will try to answer the talk title question together with the attendees.

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