Deno raises $21M • Hacker News Board

Re: Deno raises $21M

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Post by whatever1 » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 7:10 PM UTC

msoad wrote: post #13

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.

Isn’t this what an operating system is doing by default?

Re: Deno raises $21M

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Post by csmpltn » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 7:10 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.

It's that easy to raise money these days, at the 10% inflation mark. Spin up a webpage full of nonsense promises and they'll come chasing after you to take their cash.

Re: Deno raises $21M

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Post by potamic » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 7:10 PM UTC

Interesting how this will play out. It's an ambitious goal to consolidate client side and server side javascript ecosystems which is quite fragmented today. On the other hand, this may only increase fragmentation further by introducing another target to develop for (wait for transpilers that can automagically convert between deno and node code). I will always look at javascript as this problem kid that cannot get its shit together in life, perpetually chasing the romance of utopia.

Re: Deno raises $21M

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Post by jppope » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 7:11 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

Yes, there are many real-world completely serverless products and architectures. I've been working exclusively on serverless architectures for many years now, I have no plans on going back to provisioning servers or working with containers.

Re: Deno raises $21M

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Post by airstrike » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 7:12 PM UTC

cloudyglider wrote: post #28

caust1c wrote: post #11

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.

Weird... it's having the same affect on me, something about slowly fading to white background is making me flinch. Is this a known phenomenon?

As a second data point, I added the same effect to my blog back in, I don’t know, 2002 and all my friends complained about getting a headache as well, so I turned it off

For some reason it never had that same negative effect on me

Re: Deno raises $21M

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Post by loftsy » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 7:12 PM UTC

An "isolate cloud" is exactly how Google App Engine worked 10 years ago. It was a good idea then and is still a good idea now.

Re: Deno raises $21M

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Post by tick_tock_tick » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 7:13 PM UTC

jhgg wrote: post #23

Deno deploy seems cool and all, but I haven't seen any great rationale for using their service over say Cloudflare Workers.

Yeah unless I'm missing something isn't this just a stand alone company offering roughly workers?

Re: Deno raises $21M

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Post by crowlKats » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 7:14 PM UTC

spicyusername wrote: post #16

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

No, Netlify actually uses Deno to some degree: https://www.netlify.com/blog/announcing-serverless-compute-w...

Re: Deno raises $21M

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Post by pcj-github » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 7:14 PM UTC

Comments are a bit negative. I for one think they are onto something here. Surprised it's only 21M. I would have expected in these market conditions to beef up more for the next 2-3 years.

Re: Deno raises $21M

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Post by asdfasdfdsfa » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 7:14 PM UTC

caust1c wrote: post #11

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.

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