Wondering how well Deno ( https://deno.land/ ), a "secure" Node, would work as a game platform for home users.

Is this the new 8-bit BASIC?

h/t @teleclimber for bringing Deno to my atttention

@natecull @teleclimber gamewise i don’t see anything here you couldn’t do in a browser. but with deno you’d have to a do a bunch of extra setup. deno is very much about correcting the mistakes ryan dhal thinks he made with node, and thus it’s squarely in node’s original usecase: small realtime server. though i see it’s got an api that shows it could do electron’s job.

@natecull @teleclimber it seems there’s an enormous gap in communication and education, meaning most developers haven’t the slightest clue just how much amazing stuff is possible with just a plain browser without needing to add a framework on top.

@zensaiyuki @teleclimber

It might be because "just plain browser" got a very bad name back in the IE vs Firefox wars, and so everyone ran for the shelter of frameworks as protection against all the unimplemented and half-/buggily-implemented browser stuff? And now that "framework first" mentality has stuck?

@natecull @teleclimber yeah basically. all the problems the frameworks were built to solve aren’t actually a problem anymore, but now we already have all this stuff built in the frameworks.

@natecull @teleclimber but if you went looking for a simple primer, for beginners, on how to do a hello world in plain javascript, they basically don’t exist.