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deno
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denoland / deno

deno

A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.

161Distinct people
202Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
108.9KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.

GitHub

Where it is used

  • Netlify — Netlify used Deno Subhosting to build and ship its edge functions product within weeks, choosing it over building their own solution on AWS Lambda. Source

What people are saying

I love Deno and I use this, but I really wish they would fix this dumb bug: https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/16466

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 8:03:49 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year202 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-08-23 15:35:35 UTC to 2026-10-16 06:53:01 UTC.

010203040502018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 16 mentions; 4 submissions, 12 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 1 submissions, 7 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 45 mentions; 18 submissions, 27 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 30 mentions; 4 submissions, 26 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 33 mentions; 4 submissions, 29 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 30 mentions; 1 submissions, 29 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 1 submissions, 8 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 18 mentions; 0 submissions, 18 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 1 submissions, 12 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC16412
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC817
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC451827
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC30426
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC33429
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC30129
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC918
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC18018
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC13112

What Hacker News says

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JSX can become valid, standardized ECMAScript syntax. But first we need a valid syntactic sugar transformation, which I propose here. Then we need to implement it in things like babel[0] bun[1] and deno[2]. Then, frameworks would adopt it as an optional alternative implementation. Eventually, it could gain widespread support and become standardized. [0] https://github.com/sdegutis/vanillajsx.com/blob/main/site/un... [1] https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/13630 [2] https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/25312
In Proposal for Standardized JSX
This seems like a good step with import maps. Especially following web standards. I like the idea behind jsr, however I'm interested in how they will be integrating additional specifiers. I don't philosophically like having hard coded [0] strings vs smart redirect urls. I'd be interested why jsr couldn't have used standard smart semver following 301s to dynamically load packages, combined with an import map lock file. For example: `import { assertEquals } from "jsr:@std/assert@1";` could be: `import { assertEquals } from "jsr.io/std@1/assert";` With this deno could assume https, as well as follow configs/redirects to get the correct import, then lock those correct paths using import maps (the logistics of this would need hashing out, but it doesn't seem impossible considering they do it with the "special" `jsr:` specifier). It seems like
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this would maintain the same pros while avoiding the "special" specifier hard coding that exists now (seems to only be for npm: and jsr: right now; no github: for example). [0]: https://github.com/denoland/deno/blob/8c2f1f5a55a2a9bb9e04c1...
In Deno: What we got wrong about HTTP imports
Would love to see the compile situation fixed - the generated executables are ~90MB+ at this stage and do now allow compression without erroring out. Deploying ala Golang is not feasible at that level but could well be down the line if this dev branch is picked up again! The exe output grew from from ~50MB to plus ~90MB from 2021 to 2024: https://github.com/denoland/deno/discussions/9811 which mean Deno is worse than Node.js's pkg solution by a decent margin.
In Deno in 2023

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