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Deno
Company blog · deno.com/blogprogrammingweb
Deno is the company blog at deno.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2021, 245 different Hacker News readers have linked it 419 times, most often “Deno Deploy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 1 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Deno's blog for release notes and feature explainers (Temporal, WebGPU, Deno KV), for Deno Deploy announcements, and for posts on the Deno v. Oracle fight over the JavaScript trademark.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- One commenter pointed readers to the Deploy beta1 post as a way to see Deno's main selling points.1
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A drop-in JavaScript runtime with built-in TypeScript, npm support, and security by default. Run your existing Node project on Deno with no setup.
Most-linked posts?
- Deno Deploy22 people · 25 mentions · first linked 2021-03-29
- Deno, the next-generation JavaScript runtime11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2023-09-16
- Roll your own JavaScript runtime7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2022-07-29
- JSR – The JavaScript Registry6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2024-03-01
- Benchmarking AWS Lambda Cold Starts Across JavaScript Runtimes6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2024-07-25
- Node.js's Config Hell Problem5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-08-09
- Deno raises $21M5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-06-21
- A Brief History of JavaScript5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-05-22
- Roll your own JavaScript runtime, pt. 25 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-02-15
- Deno SaaSKit: An open source SaaS template by Deno4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-04-04
What Hacker News says?
> Deno is dead. Not yet; similar concerns were addressed by Dahl 6mo ago: https://deno.com/blog/greatly-exaggerated / https://archive.vn/L6His
Comment linking /blog/greatly-exaggerated
on “Anthropic acquires Bun”Submitted Cloudflare acquires Deno as a story · 1391 points
HN discussiondeno added this about a year ago https://docs.deno.com/api/web/~/Temporal https://deno.com/blog/v1.40#temporal-api
Comment linking /blog/v1.40
on “JavaScript Temporal is coming”Submitted JavaScript Trademark Update as a story · 890 points
HN discussionThere’s no acknowledgment of Node.js trademark on Deno.com … and the landing page is largely about how much better Deno is over Node.js. Of all places to put trademark acknowledgement, it’d be there - and it’s missing. https://deno.com/
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on “JavaScript Trademark Update”Submitted The Deno Company as a story · 883 points
HN discussionIt seems there are many toothing problems with Deno. I just tried stuff from their blog ( https://deno.com/blog/v1.8 ): $ deno run --unstable --allow-write=output.png https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crowlKats/webgpu-examples/f3b979f57fd471b11a28c5b0c91d0447221ba77b/hello-triangle/mod.ts Download https://crux.land/2arQ9t Download https://crux.land/api/get/2arQ9t error: Import 'https://crux.land/api/get/2arQ9t' fail…
Comment linking /blog/v1.8
on “The Deno Company”Submitted Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle as a story · 714 points
HN discussionLambda has a ton of caveats and limitations... but it seems their platform is full of limits as well: https://deno.com/deploy/docs/pricing-and-limits AWS sucks hairy balls at providing things that are simple for developers to use, so that could be their competitive advantage, but I'm just guessing here.
Comment linking /deploy/docs/pricing-and-limits
on “The Deno Company”Submitted Deno 1.9 as a story · 670 points
HN discussionThen you put Deno on the edge : https://deno.com/deploy
Comment linking /deploy
on “The Deno Company”Submitted Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js–now it wants that ignored as a story · 631 points
HN discussionI have never used Deno, but I just wanted to say that I really love the branding and graphics on the website, especially https://deno.com/deploy
Comment linking /deploy
on “The Deno Company”Submitted Deno raises $21M as a story · 608 points
HN discussionClicking around the website and reading more comments leads me to believe that this is the product they intend to monetize with: https://deno.com/deploy I still find it strange that there is no mention of it in the post...
Comment linking /deploy
on “The Deno Company”Submitted Fresh is a new full stack web framework for Deno as a story · 491 points
HN discussionLooks like https://deno.com/deploy will be a managed service - the implication seems to be that the default option will be to use their CDN to run code with an option to DIY if you prefer.
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on “The Deno Company”Submitted Big changes ahead for Deno as a story · 443 points
HN discussionI guess the "commercial applications" should be https://deno.com/deploy
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on “The Deno Company”Submitted Deno on MDN as a story · 441 points
HN discussionLooks like CDN with Serverless edge functions. https://deno.com/deploy
Comment linking /deploy
on “The Deno Company”Submitted Deno Joins TC39 as a story · 415 points
HN discussionhttps://deno.com/blog/deno-v-oracle3
Comment linking /blog/deno-v-oracle3
on “VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project”Submitted Deno in 2023 as a story · 406 points
HN discussionThere is a related, interesting legal battle over JavaScript trademark. I think that it might be a good idea to flagpole an OSS trademark just in case some bozos come and spoil the fun https://deno.com/blog/deno-v-oracle3
Comment linking /blog/deno-v-oracle3
on “VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project”Submitted Deno 1.28: Featuring 1.3M New Modules as a story · 290 points
HN discussionI'll never pass up the opportunity to remind that Ryan Dahl is still fighting the good fight against Oracle: https://x.com/rough__sea/status/1953335245412946327 https://deno.com/blog?tag=freejavascript
Comment linking /blog?tag=freejavascript
on “VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project”Submitted A whole website in a single JavaScript file as a story · 280 points
HN discussiona deno.dev subdomain is provided to all deno deploy projects ( https://deno.com/deploy )
Comment linking /deploy
on “Fresh – Next-gen web framework”Submitted Deno 1.10 Release Notes as a story · 274 points
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