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0xfffafaCrashtoday at 4:11 PM3 repliesview on HN

I’m not familiar with the author but something about this post just seems mean-spirited and petty.

Deno might not succeed as a project, especially with strong competition from Bun as an alternative to Node, but I would say that Deno has been more a force for bettering the ecosystem than not.

Many of those at Deno, including Ryan as well as some of those who have apparently left or been let go have been major contributors to the web development ecosystem. Thank you all for your work — we’re better off for your contributions.


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riazrizvitoday at 5:33 PM

Isn't it reasonable bitterness? He invested a lot of his own life on a promise that didn't pan out, and there's probably a lot of people in that community. Leadership comes with responsibility and consequences.

Content marketed at wannabe startup founders tends to be encouraging and panglossian. It's good to see here what you're signing up for if you succeed with some degree of traction.

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progxtoday at 4:23 PM

Has any competitor copied anything from Deno?

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pjmlptoday at 5:09 PM

Bun, competition?

Zig is yet to be 1.0, and who knows what anthropic will make out of it.

They can even pivot yet again back into node, as most acquisitions go.

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