Deno's Roadmap

A lot has changed since the first time Ryan presented Deno on JSConf; a few big steps have been taken. With the first stable version of the runtime being launched, the community exploded, and many people from other JavaScript communities joined in with many enthusiastic ideas.

Deno’s core team is currently putting much of its efforts into pushing Deno forward. This contribution not only happens in the form of code, issues, and helping people, but also in planning and delineating what the next steps are.

For the short-term roadmap, the core team makes sure that it’s tracking initiatives. The following two issues raised on GitHub have been used to track 2020’s Q4 and 2021’s Q1 efforts:

• Issue1
• Issue 2

If you have a detailed look at these, you can follow every discussion, code, and decision that has been made regarding those features. We’ll list some of the current initiatives here so that you can have a sneak peak of what’s happening:

• The Deno Language Server Protocol (LSP) and language server
• Compilation to binary (single executable for a Deno application)
• Data, blob, WebAssembly, and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) imports
• Improved support for Web Crypto application programming interfaces (APIs)
• Support for Immediately Invoked Function Expressions (IIFE) bundles.
• WebGPU support
• HTTP/2 support