Deno's Limitations

As with everything, choosing solutions is a matter of dealing with trade-offs. The ones that adapt best to the projects and applications we’re writing are what we end up using. Deno has some limitations, some due to its short lifetime and others due to design decisions. As it happens with most solutions, Deno is also not a one-size-fits-all tool. Let’s explore some of the current limitations of Deno and the motivations behind them.

Not as stable as Node.js

In its current state, Deno can’t be compared to Node.js regarding stability for obvious reasons. Node.js has more than 10 years of development, while Deno is only nearing its second year.

Even though most of the core features presented in this course are already considered stable and correctly ...