> ... there's a tendency to start over when the development gets hard to maintain or support instead of just fixing the mistakes.
The thought that Node.js should have been 'fixed' instead of creating Deno is where I disagree. At a glance I can see a few reasons:
- Node.js maintainers + community may not even think there is something to be fixed (see various discussions in this thread about module resolutions)
- Politics, death by committee, inertia
- Effectively a dependency with npm registry (although not technically)
- Lack of backwards compatibility with changes (e.g. module resolution)
> The thing is, I can see Beepboo 1.0 being announced in 2025
Node.js was initially released in 2009 so it's probably fairer to suggest Beepboo 1.0 will be released in 2030. And yes, if it improved on Deno and solved inherent problems that couldn't be solved internally, I would wholeheartedly cheer it along.
I think it's also worth mentioning that Node.js is at a level of stability and maturity that people who plan to and have already built on it, aren't left abandoned.
My apologies I misread.
> ... there's a tendency to start over when the development gets hard to maintain or support instead of just fixing the mistakes.
The thought that Node.js should have been 'fixed' instead of creating Deno is where I disagree. At a glance I can see a few reasons:
- Node.js maintainers + community may not even think there is something to be fixed (see various discussions in this thread about module resolutions)
- Politics, death by committee, inertia
- Effectively a dependency with npm registry (although not technically)
- Lack of backwards compatibility with changes (e.g. module resolution)
> The thing is, I can see Beepboo 1.0 being announced in 2025
Node.js was initially released in 2009 so it's probably fairer to suggest Beepboo 1.0 will be released in 2030. And yes, if it improved on Deno and solved inherent problems that couldn't be solved internally, I would wholeheartedly cheer it along.
I think it's also worth mentioning that Node.js is at a level of stability and maturity that people who plan to and have already built on it, aren't left abandoned.