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Deno in 2024

by frou_dh on 1/21/25, 5:42 PM with 3 comments

• by yellow_lead on 1/21/25, 5:48 PM

  When I did a prototype with deno, I was interested in testing with SQLite. Wanting more performance, I went to enable WAL, only to discover it's not supported. To make it worse, I couldn't get the version from npm to work either.

  I like the ideas and simplicity of deno, but my opinion after only spending a few days with it, is that it tries to replace everything, but for each of those things, it only recreates 80% of the functionality.

  I also think being backwards compatible with npm is a blessing and curse. A blessing because it can onboard more users, but a curse because those users have no incentive to switch now, since cross compatibility would also allow them to switch later.