Being using Deno for new projects for years now. Not looking back.

_e4c8 · on Nov 21, 2023

What are the advantages of deno over node?

flohofwoe · on Nov 21, 2023

Not the parent, but one very nice aspect is that an entire working Deno installation is just one file: the actual deno executable.

...when installing via homebrew on Mac you get 3 more files which look like shell-completion definitions:

    bin/deno
    etc/bash_completion.d/deno
    share/fish/vendor_completions.d/deno
    share/zsh/site-functions/_deno

e1g · on Nov 21, 2023

Both Node.js and Bun are also single executables. Node.js doesn't (yet) transpile TS for you, and that's a single dependency away.

flohofwoe · on Nov 21, 2023

Yeah I was confused that the Node installation directory was showing me 18k files in several thousand directories, but these seem to be global npm installs which npm seems to put into the node installation directory (which tbh is weird, I would expect those somewhere in my user directory).