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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

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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

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