It definitely seems that Node is surfing in deno's wake here and taking heavy inspiration from some of the more successful features.

I guess remains to be seen if this will follow in something like the Java / Scala / Kotlin model or if it'll lead to more of a merge a la io.js - I tend to think that a merge fits better since we're dealing with runtimes and not separate languages, but I think the former model could work too.

Either way, great thing for the ecosystem!