What is Deno? Ryan Dahl's Second Attempt at a JavaScript Runtime
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Discussion of the blog article What is Deno? Ryan Dahl's Second Attempt at a JavaScript Runtime.
In 2018, Ryan Dahl stood at JSConf EU and apologized for Node.js. Then he built Deno to fix the things he got wrong. Here's what changed, what the security model actually looks like, and whether switching is worth it.
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