experimenting with deno

[tesharp]

❓ Guidance

Affected Languages

• TypeScript or Javascript
• Python
• Java
• .NET (C#, F#, ...)
• Go

General Information

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• Platform: Either

The Question

I was playing around with supporting deno using denoify (https://github.com/garronej/denoify) and converted the constructs (https://github.com/2ttech/constructs/tree/deno_test/deno_lib), terraform cdktf (https://github.com/2ttech/terraform-cdk/tree/deno_test) and cdktf-provider-azurerm (https://github.com/2ttech/cdktf-provider-azurerm) just to see everything was working. Besides setting up some ports for libraries in package.json it required some minor changes to support non existing deno libraries. So far this was just done running denoify from command prompt, but it would be nice to be able to automatically create deno libraries.

It seems unnecessary to create same wrappers as other languages use since deno is also TypeScript and only difference is some node functionality that is not supported. Denoify uses polyglots where it can, but also supports creating deno specific versions of files by using *.deno.ts files, but that would require libraries to write deno specific code.

Wondering a bit if its interesting to support deno and if denoify would be a good approach? It would have certain limits, but would make it possible to support deno if taking those limitations into account (not using unsupported functions) or using deno overrides.