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I’ve never heard of deno. Been coding 29 years. Backend, frontend, you name it. But I’m one of those vanilla vim guys that keeps a minimal toolset - so what do

I’ve never heard of deno. Been coding 29 years. Backend, frontend, you name it. But I’m one of those vanilla vim guys that keeps a minimal toolset - so what do I know. Grateful this made it to the front page. If it weren’t for HN I’d remain totally oblivious to such things.

da02 3y ago
What type of apps do you code for your day-job? (I program for fun and curiosity, so that is why I ask that lame question.) Do you use node.js? Deno is brought in part by the Node.js creator, Ryan Dahl, who wanted to fix/improve a lot of things he didn't like in node.js. They also have "Deno Deploy" (with a free tier) to run your code on different servers scattered throughout the globe: https://deno.com/deploy https://deno.com/deploy One of the reasons I love the `deno` executable is you can use `import` statements in your code and then tell `deno` to merge everything into a single .js file. I would then take that and publish it to Cloudflare Workers. I know you can do this with node.js and a bunch of tools, but it is so much simpler with `deno`.
- pixelpoet 3y ago
  Not the person you asked but I'm in exactly the same boat: coding since decades and had never heard of Deno (but I have "of course" at least heard of node.js and React and Angular and ...), have been mainly coding C++ and OpenCL/CUDA.
  - da02 3y ago
    Anything stressful about your job?
    - pixelpoet 3y ago
      Not really, why?
  - SOLAR_FIELDS 3y ago
    Deno is one of those things that makes it to the front page regularly (I’ve seen it here at least once every two months since it’s release) but if you aren’t on here every day or only started frequenting here recently I could easily see it being missed
tengbretson 3y ago
Maybe you've heard about it, but then forgot. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26803818 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26803818
- herodoturtle 3y ago
  I’m getting old. Thank you!

da02 3y ago

What type of apps do you code for your day-job? (I program for fun and curiosity, so that is why I ask that lame question.) Do you use node.js? Deno is brought in part by the Node.js creator, Ryan Dahl, who wanted to fix/improve a lot of things he didn't like in node.js. They also have "Deno Deploy" (with a free tier) to run your code on different servers scattered throughout the globe: https://deno.com/deploy https://deno.com/deploy One of the reasons I love the `deno` executable is you can use `import` statements in your code and then tell `deno` to merge everything into a single .js file. I would then take that and publish it to Cloudflare Workers. I know you can do this with node.js and a bunch of tools, but it is so much simpler with `deno`.

pixelpoet 3y ago
Not the person you asked but I'm in exactly the same boat: coding since decades and had never heard of Deno (but I have "of course" at least heard of node.js and React and Angular and ...), have been mainly coding C++ and OpenCL/CUDA.
- da02 3y ago
  Anything stressful about your job?
  - pixelpoet 3y ago
    Not really, why?
- SOLAR_FIELDS 3y ago
  Deno is one of those things that makes it to the front page regularly (I’ve seen it here at least once every two months since it’s release) but if you aren’t on here every day or only started frequenting here recently I could easily see it being missed

tengbretson 3y ago

Maybe you've heard about it, but then forgot. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26803818 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26803818

herodoturtle 3y ago
I’m getting old. Thank you!