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The Deno Company
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#2> In order to vigorously pursue these ideas, we have raised 4.9 million dollars of seed capital. Our investors are Dan Scholnick from Four Rivers Ventures, Guillermo from Rauch Capital, Lee Jacobs from Long Journey Ventures, the Mozilla Corporation, Shasta Ventures, and our long-time collaborator Ben Noordhuis. This investment means we will have a staff of full-time expert engineers working to improving Deno. We will ensure that issues are addressed, bugs are fixed, timely releases are made; we will ensure Deno is a platform others can build on with trust.
From there I stopped reading.
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#3> In order to vigorously pursue these ideas, we have raised 4.9 million dollars of seed capital. Our investors are Dan Scholnick from Four Rivers Ventures, Guillermo from Rauch Capital, Lee Jacobs from Long Journey Ventures, the Mozilla Corporation, Shasta Ventures, and our long-time collaborator Ben Noordhuis. This investment means we will have a staff of full-time expert engineers working to improving Deno. We will…
> From there I stopped reading.
Why? Is it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6845286 ?
Because the next paragraph goes:
Rest assured that Deno will remain MIT licensed. For Deno to grow and be maximally useful, it must remain permissively free. We don’t believe the “open core” business model is right for a programming platform like Deno. We do not want to find ourselves in the unfortunate position where we have to decide if certain features are for paid customers only. If you watch our conference talks, you will find we've been hinting at commercial applications of this infrastructure for years. We are bullish about the technology stack we've built and intend to pursue those commercial applications ourselves. Our business will build on the open source project, not attempt to monetize it directly.
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#4congrats, i guess but not a fan of the VC route, we all know how this ends.
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#5I met Bert in the StrongLoop days after the IBM acquisition. Good guy and good luck to him.
We were consultants scaling node to production for a major international bank, circa 2016.
Love the security improvements in deno, will have to give it a look.
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#6congrats, i guess but not a fan of the VC route, we all know how this ends.
Which route on an independent MIT licensed project would you suggest?
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#7I've always been very skeptical of the value-add of Deno over Node, and this only increased my skepticism. Good luck making money, I guess.
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#8> Extending web programming beyond the browser is not a novel idea. Indeed, we have done that with moderate success in our “Node.js” project. But over a decade later, we find server-side JavaScript hopelessly fragmented, deeply tied to bad infrastructure, and irrevocably ruled by committees without the incentive to innovate. As the browser platform moves forward at a rapid pace, server-side JavaScript has stagnated.
wow lots of bold statements there. And another one for the usual "JavaScript is fragmented, let's create another tool to fix 'em all.".
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#9> In order to vigorously pursue these ideas, we have raised 4.9 million dollars of seed capital. Our investors are Dan Scholnick from Four Rivers Ventures, Guillermo from Rauch Capital, Lee Jacobs from Long Journey Ventures, the Mozilla Corporation, Shasta Ventures, and our long-time collaborator Ben Noordhuis. This investment means we will have a staff of full-time expert engineers working to improving Deno. We will…
> From there I stopped reading. Why? Is it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6845286 ? Because the next paragraph goes: Rest assured that Deno will remain MIT licensed. For Deno to grow and be maximally useful, it must remain permissively free. We don’t believe the “open core” business model is right for a programming platform like Deno. We do not want to find ourselves in the unfortunate position where we have to…
"it must remain permissively free."
... until the VCs change their mind or AWS uses our code to make more money than we do.
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#10From the last paragraph:
> But JavaScript and TypeScript scripts calling into WebAssembly code will be increasingly common.
Why is WebAssembly a key concept here? How does Deno uses it?