My understanding (which I’m sympathetic but not married to) is because Deno’s module system, along with those of the web APIs it embraces, provide a sufficient

My understanding (which I’m sympathetic but not married to) is because Deno’s module system, along with those of the web APIs it embraces, provide a sufficient abstraction layer for `npm` (the client, not the business) to be built on. Various approximations of this are good enough that people are using Node and Deno almost interchangeably. The extent to which they don’t work mostly boil down to packages expecting a fully complete Node environment or a fully complete browser environment.