Agreed... I use deno a lot for my ~/bin directory scripts, being able to rely on direct references and just run stuff, without the npm install step is just hand

Agreed... I use deno a lot for my ~/bin directory scripts, being able to rely on direct references and just run stuff, without the npm install step is just handy in practice. That node_modules doesn't work the same as well. There are things that are somewhat annoying in practice, but shell scripting with Deno has been beyond nice to say the least.