Deno with Luca Casonato
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Running JavaScript, Coordination Issues, Reliability, and Standardized Tooling
This chapter explores the various ways JavaScript is executed, ranging from browser environments to server-side and command line interfaces. It discusses the challenges posed by the lack of coordination between these domains and emphasizes the significance of reliability and standardized tooling for the JavaScript ecosystem.
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Deno is a free and open source JavaScript runtime built on Google’s V8 engine, Rust, and Tokio. The project was announced by Ryan Dahl in 2018 with the goal of addressing shortcomings of Node.js, which Ryan also created. Since then, the Deno project has grown tremendously in popularity, and they recently announced Deno KV which is a database built into Deno.
