10 Things I Regret About Node.js - Ryan Dahl - JSConf EU

Why HN readers recommended it

HN treats it as the classic talk on why Deno exists and on lessons from design mistakes in a widely used platform.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

JSConf

Topic

nodejs design mistakes

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

6

HN mentions in dataset

20

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Ryan Dahl's great talk on design mistakes he made with node.js is something I think about all the time: [VIDEO] Even though he considers things like `require('./something')` defaulting to either `./something.js` or `./something/index.js` a mistake, he also admits these are not possible to change at …

• Deno [1] is a new JS runtime by one of the creators of NodeJS, Ryan Dahl. He had a great talk [2] about the lessons he learned when creating/maintaining NodeJS. Many of these lessons are being applied to Deno. [1] [LINK] [2] [VIDEO]

• I just hope in 5 years we're not seeing a talk saying that in retrospective, dropping static types was a huge error... and DoNe is a new project to fix issues like that! (I'm just referring to this nice talk about the regretful mistakes done …