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by qbasic_forever 1150 days ago
I love the direction deno is going with a batteries included standard library for server side JS. It makes so much sense to me to consider it for simple stuff so I could have backend and frontend code all in modern JS or typescript. Things like internal tools, dev tools, etc. that just need to pop some HTML, rendered markdown, collect a few forms, run some business processes, etc. No need to wrestle the node ecosystem, no need to context switch between backend and frontend code with other languages like python.

I really think this has a strong future in enterprise as dedicated frontend, backend and devops roles all merge into one. Everyone just learns and uses typescript for everything. Everyone is a 'full stack' engineer now. I hate to say it but it's almost like the dream of java all over, except the language and tooling isn't painful.