The Berryware Blog

An Open Source Project I’m Very Interested In… May 8, 2019

Deno, which, if all goes according to plan should hit the 1.0 mark at the end of the summer 2019, is a really cool project in the “Node” dev space.

“A secure JavaScript/TypeScript runtime built with V8, Rust, and Tokio”

A few of the most important issues in the “Javascript” development space are:
1. TypeScript always feels like an extra layer that requires more effort than it should.
2. Client and Server code, while mostly reusable, have some annoying differences (e.g. “global” vs “window”).
3. Security was an afterthought in Node.
4. Deep, deep, deep dependency graphs!
5. Offline development is more tricky than it should be.

Ryan Dahl aims to address these and a few other things with his second attempt at server-side Javascript. Deno is going to be pretty amazing if it delivers on what’s currently being promised. It does seem to be largely on track (or perhaps even ahead of schedule?) so 2019 is looking like a really great year in this space!