Just for the kicks, I tried using deno for a task at my day job.
We had a need to extract records from a database into a textual format to be processed by other tools later. This is the typical task for a throwaway script which can be written in basically any scripting language. There is nothing in the task that called out for deno but I wanted to try it out and so I did.
I basically worked on the script iteratively, doing small changes, running it, checking the output, fixing things and running again. No bundler, no complex NPM tasks. Just a simple spaghetti JS and a single binary engine to run it. It was a very refreshing experience. Using URL imports was pretty nice, I really like working like that since my preferred JS environment is not NodeJS but the browser. I can see myself transitioning all those small tools and throwaway scripts I'd do in NodeJS to Deno.
People relying on NodeJS for servers and tooling for their client-side webapps might need to wait a bit longer, but for doing small tasks and scripts, I think it is quite ready and better than NodeJS IMHO. These are also good projects to give you a feel for the new runtime.
We had a need to extract records from a database into a textual format to be processed by other tools later. This is the typical task for a throwaway script which can be written in basically any scripting language. There is nothing in the task that called out for deno but I wanted to try it out and so I did.
I basically worked on the script iteratively, doing small changes, running it, checking the output, fixing things and running again. No bundler, no complex NPM tasks. Just a simple spaghetti JS and a single binary engine to run it. It was a very refreshing experience. Using URL imports was pretty nice, I really like working like that since my preferred JS environment is not NodeJS but the browser. I can see myself transitioning all those small tools and throwaway scripts I'd do in NodeJS to Deno.
People relying on NodeJS for servers and tooling for their client-side webapps might need to wait a bit longer, but for doing small tasks and scripts, I think it is quite ready and better than NodeJS IMHO. These are also good projects to give you a feel for the new runtime.