Deno raises $21M • Hacker News Board

Re: Deno raises $21M

#11

Post by caust1c » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 7:02 PM UTC

The color changing on this page gives me a migraine:

https://deno.com/deploy

I like Deno in principle, but I'd love to see how Slack, Github and Netlify are using it.

Re: Deno raises $21M

#12

Post by qweqwerwerwerwr » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 7:02 PM UTC

are there real-world, commercial products actually running on """serverless""" architecture?

no matter how much I think about that whole concept, I see no application for it that couldn't be done better, faster and easier with regular tools

Re: Deno raises $21M

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Post by msoad » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 7:03 PM UTC

Running little processes on the server without the VM/K8s expensive abstraction has a lot of potential. I'm sure Deno will do great! At least this way of deploying web apps has a lot of potential.

Re: Deno raises $21M

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Post by nikanj » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 7:03 PM UTC

bowsamic wrote: post #7

password4321 wrote: post #5

+ People get paid, hopefully a few even get big $. - Investors want unicorn returns. Good luck!

I think they should get a reasonable return. Deno has a lot of hype and Node has a lot of cultural weight, as does Ryan himself. Not sure about unicorns though! It does not seem like a unicorn product, but I'm not a VC

You don’t get $21M from investors for nothing. They will force the square peg through the unicorn-shaped hole - or kill the company trying

Re: Deno raises $21M

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 7:03 PM UTC

> Early in cloud computing, virtual machines were the compute abstraction […]

This is funny to me because serverless sounds to me like the return of PHP (etc) shared hosting. What's old is new again?

Re: Deno raises $21M

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Post by spicyusername » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 7:04 PM UTC

Is the intent of this product to compete with something like Netlify?

Re: Deno raises $21M

#17

Post by LudwigNagasena » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 7:04 PM UTC

What does O(100) mean in the comparison table?

Re: Deno raises $21M

#18

Post by andruby » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 7:04 PM UTC

vaishnavsm wrote: post #10

blocked_again wrote: post #6

Is Deno going to be the first runtime environment to IPO?

I think Sun Microsystems IPOd

Were they not making & selling hardware at the time of IPO?

Re: Deno raises $21M

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Post by vaishnavsm » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 7:05 PM UTC

Zababa wrote: post #9

> Cold start (time to first response, ms) O(100) O(1000) O(10000) I think ~100 ~1000 ~10000 would be clearer than using the big O notation, since this has nothing to do with fuinctions.

Agreed! I'm pretty sure they're just using O(x) to mean on the order of x, since big O of any constant is the same (unless that's their point??? :O)

Re: Deno raises $21M

#20

Post by nikanj » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 7:05 PM UTC

qweqwerwerwerwr wrote: post #12

are there real-world, commercial products actually running on """serverless""" architecture? no matter how much I think about that whole concept, I see no application for it that couldn't be done better, faster and easier with regular tools

Hot take: investors really are stupid enough to think ”servers/datacenters are a massive cost for large companies. A serverless solution should save them lots of money”