I doubt deno could have funded its development purely from sponsorship. And Deploy generated real revenue (on its OEM/b2b side).
replyJt is interesting to speculate on what might have been had Deno never been a profit-seeking company. But having worked there, I am reasonably confident in my assessment above.
I agree that should it need to be profit making then what’s e got makes sense. But hey, Node isn’t a profit making enterprise. Deno could have been the same.
replyI only tangentially followed Deno, but am a proud Deno 1 hoodie-haver!
replyA compatibility shim sounds like a great community run project while the core team could work on the slow-but-steady w/o concerning the core with too much burden of node compat.
Deno is now a feedstock for future JS runtimes.