Explain Deno Like I'm Five

Deno just hit 1.0, for anyone out of the loop can we summarize what it is and what it means?

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[Ibrahim Abdullahi Aliyu]

You also 😂

[Menai Ala Eddine]

I tried to read Deno but I did not find a motivation to learn it. I found the documentation a little complicated.

[🦄N B🛡]

"OK Johnny we all had a talk and decided to take the bullets out of your toy gun. Because they are sharp and you were hurting the other kids with them, you see? Now please hand it over. Johnny, no, don't point it that way. You put that down right now."

[Sven Kanoldt]

The race to build yet another eco system has started. Typescript only this time. Great times ahead IMHO.

[Heiker]

I like to think Deno is the answer to the question "what if new versions of node didn't have to be backward compatible?" and just a tiny pinch of the "let's rewrite it in Rust" trend.

[Belhassen Chelbi]

It's something you do when you create something great but it turns out you wanna do better.

[Anurag Hazra]

None of the explanations are 5 years old kid friendly 😆

[Mansour Benyoucef ☕]

• is a software, built on top of V8 JavaScript engine.
• Easy to get started with.
• Typescript support out of the box.
• Security: when using others code(library), it's your responsibility to give access to use network, read/write files, etc...
• You don't need folder that contains +999999 folders/files in it

[Rubin]

For those of you starting to use deno, i have just created dotenv package which is a port of the nodejs dotenv package. Try it here deno.land/x/denoenv/

[jeikabu]

And it was done in Rust. As should be considered for all performance sensitive green-field "system" software.