A short introduction to Deno.

A quick introduction.

In 2018, Ryan Dahl gave a talk titled “10 things I regret about Node.JS” — and at the end he introduced a new runtime called Deno. Before we get into Deno, let’s talk about why Ryan might have wanted a new runtime in the first place.

What Node lacked

In the talk, Ryan went over a few regrets he had with the Node ecosystem, and I love how he addressed all of it because with time, technologies change — And in the case of Node, the ecosystem around it had changed drastically. Deno solves a few…