Same, I remember googling Deno and going "Oh this new thing looks neat" - and then I haven't heard/seen/read a thing about it until this post. But I keep hearing about Bun and of course nodejs.

Feel bad for them, they obviously just didn't capture a real userbase. I expect if yt-dlp hadn't started to require it they'd have just silently flamed out.

yt-dlp was definitely the reason for the increased adoption mentioned in the post.

I wonder if the layoffs have a deeper connection to yt-dlp.