Deno's Decline
a year ago
- #Deno
- #JavaScript
- #Serverless
- Deno Deploy's regions have significantly decreased from 35 to 6 between 2023-2025, impacting performance and global reach.
- Competitors like Cloudflare and Bunny offer significantly more Points of Presence (PoPs), highlighting Deno's shortcomings in 'edge' hosting.
- Deno's other products, including Fresh web framework and Deno KV, show signs of stagnation or abandonment.
- Deno's original mission to improve upon Node.js's module resolution and dependencies has been abandoned, with recent updates focusing on Node compatibility fixes.
- The author expresses disillusionment with Deno, citing a 'rug pull' experience, and shows interest in Bun as an alternative.
- Deno's marketing claims of 'global scale' and 'edge hosting' are questioned for their accuracy and legal implications.