Deno raises $21M
This question is going to make me sound like a jerk, but why do you want to write your back-end in JS? Deno looks like a great improvement over node.js, but I don't feel compelled to use it. It seems like people jumped to node based on some performance promises that didn't really pay off (IMO). And since then, we have newer options like Rust, Go, and Elixir as performant back-end options, and even older choices like Ruby and Python have continued to improve.<p>Seems like the standard arguments would be that developers already know JS, and that you can share code with the browser. I don't find these highly compelling.<p>EDIT: I haven't learned typescript yet, based on the replies, it seems like that could be a good reason to choose it. Seems like a nice middle-ground between typical scripting and compiled languages.