Though they’re also selling a developer ecosystem. A lock-in. Are you willing to bet your company’s own software tools on a vendor that could go bankrupt from their other (hosting) business? The question is if Deno hosting dies, will Deno as a platform still thrive?
that I am unsure about, a large part of the appeal at least for me is the deno deploy.
URL imports are a bit of a hassle when you are trying to get them from say a private github repo.
(It's a bit trickier than that since the SQLite database holding the KV store would need to be backed up, but it seems doable with Litestream?)
It's be tough, but going the other way to Node as a transition is entirely possible with relatively minor effort.
If it's a startup looking for growth then definitely. Future prospects may no longer signup because the needed region isn't available.