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I care a lot about using great tools, but I agree. The thought of having to hold another widely adopted backend JS runtime in my head to be an effective ecosystem developer is not pleasant. I would rather spend that concentration thinking about tools that complement JS/NodeJS in massively more meaningful ways, like Golang or Rust.

I have a tremendous amount of respect for the Deno team, their point of view, and what they have done and continue to do. In an alternate reality, maybe everyone would be happier if they had displaced NodeJS. (I don't know.) But from my point of view in the trenches, seriously imagining the widespread adoption of another major NodeJS-incompatible runtime (the browsers are bad enough!) is almost depression-inducing. I just finished migrating my monorepo source code to ESM (except for the lingering .cjs config files for commonjs-only dependencies). Holy hell, did that make me long for Laravel. It does not have to be this way. Enough already.