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What are the advantages of deno over node?

• flohofwoe 3y ago
  Not the parent, but one very nice aspect is that an entire working Deno installation is just one file: the actual deno executable. ...when installing via homebrew on Mac you get 3 more files which look like shell-completion definitions: bin/deno etc/bash_completion.d/deno share/fish/vendor_completions.d/deno share/zsh/site-functions/_deno
  • e1g 3y ago
    Both Node.js and Bun are also single executables. Node.js doesn't (yet) transpile TS for you, and that's a single dependency away.
    • flohofwoe 3y ago
      Yeah I was confused that the Node installation directory was showing me 18k files in several thousand directories, but these seem to be global npm installs which npm seems to put into the node installation directory (which tbh is weird, I would expect those somewhere in my user directory).