Marginal improvement? Uhh, for a greenfield deno project it's light-years more productive than node and npm. You directly import dependencies by URL and never

Marginal improvement? Uhh, for a greenfield deno project it's light-years more productive than node and npm. You directly import dependencies by URL and never have to touch or know about a package manager, node_modules folder, etc. You have a fully featured standard library and don't have to download third party code for stuff like left padding a string. You have typescript transpilation out of the box and with zero config vs. sometimes hours of fiddling and fuss with node. You have ES modules by default and none of this nonsense about .cjs vs. .mjs etc. It's a much more opinionated ecosystem and that's a good thing IMHO. I think people mad about this and node support in general don't realize it's just a quality of life thing for people moving existing code over to deno. Instead of being like python 3 that firmly said "just rewrite your code, stop complaining" the deno folks are giving people an easier way with compatibility to node.