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by pier25 1206 days ago
Of course Deno has a build step. The difference is you don't have to configure it and it happens on demand rather than aot.

It's definitely an improvement but the title is misleading.

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Probably one of the more rational takes I've seen in this discussion... I happen to prefer the Deno approach, while I really do appreciate the efforts for better node.js compatibility, if only because of the sheer volume of modules out there.

I do think that new libraries should probably go the other direction with Deno first and Node/npm as a separate build target. I've started also reaching for Deno first for a few shell scripting chores where I need more than bash...

    #!/usr/bin/env -S deno run ...
Which has been pretty handy.