[HN Gopher] Deno's Decline
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       Deno's Decline
        
       Author : enz
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2025-05-01 22:08 UTC (52 minutes ago)
        
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       | HideousKojima wrote:
       | Someone in a thread here a few months back described webdevs and
       | their constant obsession with changing tooling, frameworks, etc.
       | as "mayflies debating politics" or something to that effect and
       | it has stuck with me since. Do all these new frameworks really
       | have some sort of inherent flaws that require rebuilding
       | everything from the ground up every 5 years or less? Or is it
       | just something inherent in the language/web (and/or the sorts of
       | people who become webdevs) that causes this phenomenon?
       | 
       | Or when JS devs suddenly discover concepts like "serverside
       | rendering" and reinvent PHP and ASP.NET.
        
       | andrewmcwatters wrote:
       | I said it back when Deno was released, and I'll say it again: I'm
       | not doing another JavaScript rugpull. Node.js is here to stay,
       | it's mature, and if you want performance, leave it behind for Go.
       | 
       | It was telling when you saw that basically all of Deno's
       | interfaces were inspired by Go.
       | 
       | I'm so glad that as an industry we're saying "No," to all of
       | these JavaScript authors who try to yank entire ecosystems along
       | with them as they go try and monetize their spin-offs.
       | 
       | I'm too busy shipping to care.
        
         | RainyDayTmrw wrote:
         | I dunno. How much do you value isomorphism and code sharing?
        
       | RainyDayTmrw wrote:
       | This is sad news. I always found NodeJS' APIs to be a bit
       | deficient, and liked Deno's better - with the caveat that they
       | openly admit to copying designs from Go[1], so it's not
       | necessarily original.
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       | [1]: https://deno.land/std@0.164.0
        
       | MortyWaves wrote:
       | I'm not convinced. The author has had a pretty negative view of
       | Deno, JSR, etc since the beginning.
        
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