| If the the deno executable is roughly the same size as a popular "web browser"1 why not just distribute Javscript files and let users run them in deno. Or let users "import" them into their own scripts. 1 The one I downloaded weighs in at 85MB. That is smaller than some popular smartphone apps. As I understand it, deno is designed to be somewhat safer than nodejs. I can edit and compile deno much easier than I can compile a popular web browser. Some popular web browsers are not meant to be edited or compiled by users. If there are things that users dislike about these programs they are powerless to change them. The "web browser" is created and controlled by companies in the business of user data/metadata collection and advertising. AFAIK, the people behind deno are not engaged in such practices. The "modern" web browser has become a Trojan Horse of sorts. Instead of a program for displaying and reading HTML, it has become a vehicle by which users indiscriminantly/involuntarily run other peoples' programs, often written in Javascript, in a context where a third party, the commercially-oriented browser vendor, can quietly collect user data/metadata, mediate and manipulate user interaction. Deno takes the Javascript interpreter out of the browser. |