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SE Radio 553: Luca Casonato on Deno

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Is There a Bug in the Node Standard Library?

Whenever you're replacing a component with a shim, I think there's concerns about additional bugs or changes in behavior that can be introduced. Is that something that you're seeing and how are you accounting for that? Yeah, that's an excellent question. So what we do is we actually run nodes test suite against Dino's shim layer. node has a very extensive test suite for its own standard library. And we can run this suite against our shims to find things like this. But overall, we can already catch a lot of these by just testing against nodes test.And then the other thing is we run a lot of real code. Like we'll try run Prisma and we

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