Ryan seems to be a brilliant engineer that takes (only) two attempts to get something right. The cost of such remarkably rapid learning is that he often gets it

Ryan seems to be a brilliant engineer that takes (only) two attempts to get something right. The cost of such remarkably rapid learning is that he often gets it completely backwards the first time. Inventing Node before Deno. Creating a compatibility mode in Deno to run Node scripts instead of a tool to port Node scripts to Deno. They even maintain a tool to convert Deno scripts to Node. You really can’t get it more backwards! I sometimes look at his GitHub issues and PRs and wrong ideas are not rare. Thankfully he assembled a good team that double checks him and catches most of those wrong ideas. But they can only catch so many, and it’s likely more difficult for the executive decisions of the Deno company since money is directly involved like creating a Node compat mode.