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José Pablo Ramírez Vargas

Deno? Why? It is currently a mere toy nowhere near production grade. Did you know Deno ranked in the 400's in last year's performance tests? NodeJS ranked 212th. Isn't Deno supposed to beat NodeJS? It's not doing it and by a long shot.

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Red Ochsenbein (he/him)

Performance test of what? Sources are very important for such claims.

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José Pablo Ramírez Vargas • Edited

I don't understand why people are so defensive of Node and Deno. I guess it's all in the hype.

Here: techempower.com/benchmarks/#sectio...

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Red Ochsenbein (he/him)

It has nothing to do with being defensive. But with all performance tests, the context (what has been tested exactly, and how) does matter.

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OpenTech-Consult

Didn't know that. And why is node.js ranked at 212th place. Which one is ranked number one. Can you send a link or reference?

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José Pablo Ramírez Vargas

Hello. I don't have the link handy. It was the performance tests Microsoft used during their .Net7 presentation last year. A third-party company did the benchmarking. I don't remember #1. I remember .Net at 9th place, NodeJS at 212th place, and Deno being all the way down the 400's.

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TheNickest

It would be helpful and beneficial to back such comments with a link in the future. Like this your comments lose value, where they actually could provide some. For someone who hasn’t seen the ranking themselves it could just be random numbers.

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José Pablo Ramírez Vargas

Thanks. The value of the comment is actually irrelevant to me in this particular instance. I decided to share what I read at some point in time. I have disclosed the origin, and I bet anyone determined to find it, will find it with my description. I just don't feel the urge to prove myself to anyone here or to serve as a personal assistant and look information up for strangers on their command.
Generally speaking, I will back my comments whenever I feel the need to do it.
Still, your advice is well received. I actually concur.

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Valeria

Because I like to work with it. I enjoy clean APIs and it’s just perfect for edge computing! I’m not sure what makes you believe it’s not ready for production, I’m sure you have your reasons. I moved my personal projects from Cloudflare workers to Deno deploy some time ago and so far had nothing but pleasant experience, including a significant performance boost or latency drop if you prefer it that way.
I’m not advocating for switching, but do take a look at Fresh and island architecture, it’s a masterpiece despite of its simplicity.

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José Pablo Ramírez Vargas

I find that performance boost hard to believe after seeing it ranking so poorly last year. Anyway, to each its own, I guess. Cheers.