On: Deno 1.34: Deno compile supports NPM packages

[Already__Taken]

one of the main take aways I got from Ryan's deno intro was pragmatism over preferences.

[lolinder → Already__Taken]

Are we talking about the same talk? 10 Things I Regret about Node.js [0]?

Goal #2 (after security) was to simplify the module system, and the very first thing he said about that was no node compatibility.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3BM9TB-8yA

[jitl → lolinder]

Supporting NPM allows the entire ecosystem to gradually migrate from CommonJS/NPM packages to ESM/Deno imports.

New developers in Deno will still write pure code - not NPM code that has slow require; they don’t bear any mental complexity - it’s only legacy code that pays a runtime complexity cost.