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> Why? Having to manually kick off a build process is another thing that I have to go do that takes me out of the flow and is another point where things can go
by TOGoS 4y ago
> Why?
Having to manually kick off a build process is another thing that I have to go do that takes me out of the flow and is another point where things can go wrong.
When you run a Deno script, it has a build step that it does internally, so I don't have to think about it, and I don't have to configure anything. It just works because it was designed that way. I don't know why more language runtimes aren't.
Even when I want to compile a JavaScript bundle to run in the browser and there is an explicit build step, `deno bundle` is far simpler and more pleasant to use than the mess of npm packages I would have to worry about in the Node world.