What does HackerNews think of deno?

Much of Node.js is written in C, yet it's still called Node.js.

Deno has some JavaScript/TypeScript in it. On GitHub https://github.com/denoland/deno is 22.8% JavaScript and 13.2% TypeScript, and https://github.com/denoland/deno_std is 68.2% JavaScript and 31.6% TypeScript.

So to me the title is misleading about the name (Deno is certainly not named Deno.js), but not about what Deno is written in.

OP should have tested Deno (https://github.com/denoland/deno) too along side Node. Alas...

I gave it a whirl:

  > git clone https://github.com/denoland/deno.git denoland/deno
  > git clone https://github.com/denoland/rusty_v8.git denoland/rusty_v8
  > cd denoland/deno
  > vi Cargo.toml

  ...
  [patch.crates-io]
  rusty_v8 = { path = "../rusty_v8" }
  ...

  > cargo build --release
  ... as expected same failure - good ...

Make rusty_v8 build.rs aware of freebsd

  > vi ../rusty_v8/build.rs

  ...
  #[cfg(target_os = "freebsd")]
  {
    "freebsd"
  }
  ...

Have a quick squizz to see where this is used:

  > rg "platform\(\)" ../rusty_v8

  build.rs
  157:fn platform() -> &'static str {
  180:    .join(platform());

Attempt to fix... and bang! It's using the platform() result to call a python script that pulls binaries from here:

https://github.com/denoland/ninja_gn_binaries/

And there's no FreeBSD build there. To much yak shaving for idle curiosity on my part.

Heavily discouraged by who? I have seen many Rust projects and they were all filled with unwraps.

Two random Rust projects:

https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio:

  $ grep -irn 'unwrap' | wc -l
  1398

https://github.com/denoland/deno:

  $ grep -irn 'unwrap' | wc -l
  2050

I dunno, but all Rust projects I have encountered had unwraps everywhere.

As someone who's not a fan of JS in the browser, https://github.com/denoland/deno is _shockingly_ nice for "script-sized" tasks that need more performance than bash+jq makes easy.

For anyone else curious, I believe Deno is a reference to https://github.com/denoland/deno please correct me though if that’s wrong

Yes! And a good surface API, OpenResty (nginx + lua) is reasonably powerful but you're really limited based on the events they give you.

I'm really hopeful about deno (https://github.com/denoland/deno) for this. TypeScript is nice, the deno TCP perf is good, all it needs is some good proxy libraries.

>Not being glib, just a heaps up: https://github.com/denoland/deno

interesting thanks for the heads up - my assumption is though that this is just a wrapper over a V8 engine with typescript compilation on the fly?

Does that make it a TypeScript runtime or not?