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tracker1 • today at 3:42 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

I'm really sad about the announcement and that the Deno runtime as it was is going away. I'll definitely be following and likely using an active fork if it presents one.

I've been using Deno a lot for straight shell scripting. Being able to link directly to dependencies and run without a separate install step or node_modules directory is huge. The fact that it's a single binary download and can self update is so nice too.

I'm not sure if these features are similar for Bun or not. I'm just sad about the whole thing.


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NetOpWibby • today at 6:53 AM

There's a fork-in-progress called "Dodo," the Discord server is quickly filling up. https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/37030#issuecomment-6...

Dodo aims to be a drop-in replacement.

Then there's Ende, my fork, and I ripped out Node compatibility, Deploy, KV, Jupyter, &c. https://ende.sh

ameliaquining • today at 4:00 AM

Bun supports this if your dependencies are npm packages: https://bun.sh/docs/runtime/auto-install

It is also a single self-contained binary and has a self-updater.