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.”

A decade after Node.js was first announced, JavaScript and the web platform have evolved, and TypeScript has changed the way JS applications are developed. Deno is a new JavaScript/TypeScript runtime that was designed with all those new capabilities in mind.

Deno is a program for running JavaScript and TypeScript code outside of a browser. It’s the most recent effort spearheaded by Ryan Dahl, who founded the Node.js project in 2009, and it is an attempt to reimagine Node.js in light of the advances in JavaScript since 2009, including the TypeScript compiler. Like Node.js, Deno is essentially a shell around the Google V8 JavaScript engine, although unlike Node.js it includes the TypeScript compiler in its executable image.

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