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		Hamcha on Sept 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Deno by Example One use case where pure Deno works for me is shell scripts. Writing them in Deno is quite pleasant and they usually don't need many dependencies. Plus you can always host then and just "deno run <url>" from any machine that has it. It used to be a problem that you had to know permissions ahead of time but now they interactively ask you for it which makes the scary "-A" flag much less needed.

JimDabell on Sept 16, 2023 [–]

You can also compile them to standalone executables easily with `deno compile`.

satvikpendem on Sept 16, 2023 | [–]

I wonder how that works, do they ship the entire Deno runtime with the executable à la Electron?

Hamcha on Sept 16, 2023 | | [–]

Yes, a `console.log()` compiles to a 78.46MiB .exe

satvikpendem on Sept 16, 2023 | | [–]

Wow, sounds like I'll stick with Rust.

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