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Re:Deno – A secure TypeScript runtime on V8 by Scarbutt on Thursday October 04, 2018 @05:51PM (#18143977)
Why not a secure runtime on Golang instead? just curious since I saw in another article here today that the author of Deno(also the creator of nodejs) prefers Go for server stuff.

Leveraging JS popularity is one reason I can think of.

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Re:Deno – A secure TypeScript runtime on V8 by wakeywakeywakey on Thursday October 04, 2018 @05:56PM (#18144009)
It seems like they've chosen Rust for the backend. This is a great fit in terms of preventing data races and having a no-GC performance profile.
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Re:Deno – A secure TypeScript runtime on V8 by skybrian on Thursday October 04, 2018 @06:01PM (#18144056)
JavaScript is garbage-collected. They are using Rust to avoid having two garbage collectors.
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Re:Deno – A secure TypeScript runtime on V8 by solidsnack9000 on Thursday October 04, 2018 @06:02PM (#18144059)
There used to be one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17183241

https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/276

Wasn’t able to find the motivation yet.

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Re:Deno – A secure TypeScript runtime on V8 by solidsnack9000 on Thursday October 04, 2018 @06:21PM (#18144194)
the double GC problem is too worrying to invest more into it.

https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/276#issuecomment-39932...

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