Deno is striving for more unified APIs with browsers, so while they are moving away from the "platform" of internal use only V8 APIs, they are moving toward the "web platform", which seems an admirable goal to me. One of my biggest complaints for a while has been how drastically different some Node APIs are from the way any actual "web platform" APIs work in 2021 (Promises for filesystem APIs in Node are still "experimental", and meanwhile there's an actual filesystem API standardized in the "web platform" that is entirely incompatible but Promise-based). You can polyfill some of the "web platform" libraries back on top of Node in many cases, but Deno seems sensible to me in trying to better unify such things from the start.
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Deno is striving for more unified APIs with browsers, so while they are moving away from the "platform" of internal use only V8 APIs, they are moving toward the "web platform", which seems an admirable goal to me. One of my biggest complaints for a while has been how drastically different some Node APIs are from the way any actual "web platform" APIs work in 2021 (Promises for filesystem APIs in Node are still "experimental", and meanwhile there's an actual filesystem API standardized in the "web platform" that is entirely incompatible but Promise-based). You can polyfill some of the "web platform" libraries back on top of Node in many cases, but Deno seems sensible to me in trying to better unify such things from the start.