Deno is officially being released in 3 days. I figured now would be a great time to check it out, see how it compares to Node and become an early adopter.

A secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.

“(node) could have been much nicer” — Ryan Dahl

In a talk on “10 Things I Regret About Node.js”, Ryan Dahl discussed some of the problems with Node. Many of the problems mentioned could not be easily fixed without changing the core of Node and could not be made while supporting legacy applications. Instead, Ryan decided to branch away from Node and start work on Deno as a new runtime to replace Node.

Like node, Deno is based off of the V8 JavaScript engine but unlike node its runtime implemented in Rust and Typescript.

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