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As long as the competition forced Node to become better then it's all good.

Yeah this is it, Bun, Deno etc are 100% good for JS/TS in the aggregate because they push Node.js and npm to actually improve.

However that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to use them, it is not

But if that becomes common wisdom and nobody ends up using such new projects going forward out of such fears, how will they get the momentum to meaningfully affect change on Node? This worked out with Bun and Deno but not sure about the future.

There are always hype train/resume driven development developers (in fact, there's way too many).

I wish it were otherwise but I don't think anyone running a hype-driven project of dubious utility needs to worry too much, humans are not rational creatures

Communities aren't always in competition with one another.

Yes they are. If opensource product A does not have better features than competing opensource product B, uses move to the better product A and pretty soon, almost nobody will use product B. Take BSD vs Linux for example. We get "we've migrated to BSD" or "we've migrated to Linux" posts all the time and arguments for one or the other. Is there a winner and loser? Yes. Larger communities, more developers, more corporate sponsors, more contributions, etc. Certainly looks like competition to me.

That’s because you’ve been brainwashed by capitalism. The alternative getting less attention might have fewer resources, but there is nothing to “win” here.

Getting “funded” is to get a job maintaining the project. Great! This happens to incredibly few, high-profile projects. Those people wouldn’t be working on the alternative if they didn’t get paid to work on the one they care about.

>but there is nothing to “win” here.

In the context of Deno here, it obviously implies market share.

There's no "market" to have a "share" of.

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