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by joshstrange 1021 days ago
I continue to watch Deno with excitement. I haven't had a good use case to play with it yet (all my free programming time has gone into my side business and I'm not ready to chance it on Deno yet) but I'll keep looking.

I find the way they handle secondary indexes very interesting. I mean under the hood I think DynamoDB does pretty much the same thing (stores the data multiple times) but instead of explicitly writing the data multiple times you define fields on the data that the secondary indexes use so the data is written there at the same time it's written to the primary (I could be a little mistaken, I'm working at a higher abstraction layer so I don't think about that). I can't decide which approach I like more. I will say that I don't think I'd need anything but my own abstraction layer to work with Deno KV vs DynamoDB. That said I still think DynamoDB is way more powerful overall.

As always I'm rooting for Deno to succeed.

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Deno gives me hope for web development. The security model, no bundler and general pace of progress is great. They've drastically improved node interop but if they could close the gaps (and sort out extension/less imports) so many more projects could finally jump ship over to Deno.