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DISILLUSIONED WITH DENO

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Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Deno's core team has taken on the monumental task of building Deno-specific versions of common web development tools along with implementing compatibility with the massive Node/npm ecosystem. This strategy is unsustainable, as it leaves Deno perpetually behind Node and fails to incentivize developers to create Deno-native packages. Node.js is still the most viable long-term bet for backend development in JavaScript as it is adopting Deno's best features and accounting for the rise of non-JavaScript alternatives built on technologies like WebAssembly.