[Kamq]

This is only one strategy to get adoption. The other is to have better apis/more features so that new projects gradually move to your runtime.

In this hypothetical, eventually being on node would become like still being on java 8 is today.

[pjmlp]

Except node, like Java, moves along, making those that made a bet being a better Java 8, seem irrelevant with time, unless they happened to have a platform holder sponsoring their existence.

Deno needs a bit more than that for adoption.