I get the feeling it’s just meant to be a nicer development experience by including more out of the box. I tried it briefly and was impressed by how easy it was

I get the feeling it’s just meant to be a nicer development experience by including more out of the box. I tried it briefly and was impressed by how easy it was, it felt like I was in another language’s ecosystem rather than the complex duct tape approach JS has become infamous for. I think as it matures, it will help increase productivity and decrease complexity for new projects. There’s not a reason you’d migrate an existing node project to deno, but if you’re starting something new, why not use the nicer environment? FWIW, deno is also built by Ryan Dahl, the original creator of node, so I think of deno as more like a rewrite of node rather than a competitor.