While it is interesting to see the work going on this, unless something really messes up node, I don't see any big adoption ever taking off, other than how egcs forced GCC to come back on track.
The only true benefit I’m seeing as a potential Deno user is the faster startup time to reduce cold boots in a serverless setting - everything else is more in the category of “nice to haves” like ease of setup (I’m used to the workflows with Node so while it’s obtuse it’s something I know and is well documented on the web) and a tighter security model (I haven’t personally ran into any issues with this in Node but can see the benefits).
But nothings stopping Node devs from prioritizing the cold boot time, or for other upstarts like Bun with more of a focus on maintaining Node compat, or going with V8 Isolates instead, to give Deno a solid run for its money.
I was unaware of information on superior startup time for Deno and couldn't find references from a quick search. Would you be able to provide more information?
Maybe I’m thinking more of Deno Deploy but they claim sub 400ms cold starts/40ms warm starts so yeah, pretty fast. Only other option I’ve seen that ballpark is with Cloudflare Workers.
But nothings stopping Node devs from prioritizing the cold boot time, or for other upstarts like Bun with more of a focus on maintaining Node compat, or going with V8 Isolates instead, to give Deno a solid run for its money.