It's not that I disagree with Dahl on most of his recognized mistakes (though some I do, most especially that a standardized, embedded packaging system was a mistake, despite the legions of warts of NPM), it's that most of these mistakes feel like little nits or one-time costs that just don't bother me at all in the Node world.

I mean, it feels like the best thing going for Deno is out-of-the-box TypeScript support, but with Node it's trivial to have a template project that integrates all this for you, then it's 1-and-done. Perhaps the other thing I like about Deno is it separates the standard library into its own package instead of being part of the Deno-runtime version, but again, this difference is definitely not enough to make me switch.