I think you're underestimating just how much tooling Deno has built-in. It's not just automatic TS compilation, but formatting, linting, testing, and benchmarking at the bare minimum. I use those for almost every project. Each of those would probably be at least another configuration file.
About Deno Deploy, I completely disagree with the analysis that it's just like any other lambda service. It's not just about easy deploys, the service itself is simply better. There are no cold starts and they don't just do that by keeping a vm up all the time. It's really magical. You should give it a second look.
> There are no cold starts and they don't just do that by keeping a vm up all the time. It's really magical.
Do you know how they're doing that, technically? Is it running on Cloudflare under the hood, or if not does it have a similar set of tradeoffs and benefits vs Lambda? Or is it a third completely different way with different tradeoffs/benefits?
For most places in the USA, you literally don't have a choice of ISP. For Git hosting platforms, you do, and I find it weird to write an article stating all the reasons you don't want to use a service, but conclude that you'll use it anyway as long as it's convenient.
The AI paragraph is particularly weird, since it states that "it's unethical" and in the next sentence that "Copilot is a fun tool that you should use".
It feels like the author was made aware of those complaints by somebody else, does not really understand or care about them, and wrote this blog as a sort of justification to keep using it. It is really strange.
I never liked it for one reason: people use it to virtue signal to potential employers that they've been active in open source and have worked diligently on various side-projects. Whilst there's nothing wrong with that, it gets tricky when the person is over-involved with GitHub, since GitHub has many metrics people try to game, and GitHub does 'gamification' style tactics to keep users hooked.
It's basically social media, but for code. If people just calmed down a bit and stopped trying to earn badges and keep their contributions graph green, that would be great.
