Thanks for that. I'm in the middle situation, in that I'm somewhat in a hurry but not desperate (yet). So far I've been pretty encouraged by how quickly I've go

Thanks for that. I'm in the middle situation, in that I'm somewhat in a hurry but not desperate (yet). So far I've been pretty encouraged by how quickly I've gotten something working with Deno; the main reason I went with it over PHP 8 is that I wanted to learn JS/TS. Second, the author's goals of addressing Node shortcomings and providing a cleaner import mechanism resonated with me. Thus far it hasn't annoyed me, which is a miracle because I'm easily annoyed. I think sifting through a vast collection of libraries (mostly junk, as you say) would annoy the shit out of me but more importantly waste valuable time. I learned that problems that seem simple and solved apparently often aren't, regardless of how many blog posts and HN posts there are about the framework of the week. I needed to define an API, so I did so using OpenAPI. While the idea and standard seems mostly sound, the tooling (from editing to code generation) is absolute trash. I wasted soooo much time trying to make it work. Should I ever use it again, I'm writing my own tools. But right now I do just need to get stuff done.