Is Deno Worth Learning?

Question

Anyone here migrated from Node to Deno? Should I learn it?

trinovantes · Accepted Answer

I'm not sure if Deno will be the runtime everyone will be using in the future due to how many breaking changes it's making for the sake of "doing it right". But at the very least, I think TypeScript is the future of JS and is worth learning.

brundolf · Answer

There isn't much to learn; the system-APIs are the only fundamental difference. I guess the ecosystem is disjoint from Node's, so the go-to frameworks might be different, but it's not like it's a whole new language.

pritambarhate · Answer

I would give it at least 2 years to settle down and prove itself. If in 2 years it has taken some mindshare from Node.js then it might be worth investing some time into.

speedgoose · Answer

Perhaps someone will write a compatibility layer allowing the use of NPM packages made for NodeJS in Deno. Until that, no.

slipwalker · Answer

i will give it time to mature... i approve the ideas behind it, but there's too many JS developers used to "doing thing wrong" in the node ecosystem, i doubt they would change their ways easily.