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For certain purposes (especially for writing servers), I would actually suggest Go and Rust as much better replacements for Node.js :) (Ryan also mentioned, if you notice, Go as better alternative for fast servers in the original JSConf video)

Ryan and some of us consider the project quite experimental, and the initial focus was not aiming for writing super powerful servers (though it should not be too bad). A pleasant scripting environment with more attention to features that Node have not tried out is more or less the goal.

(Fun fact: Ryan has been into machine learning and data visualization for some time. So Deno was created under the hope to somehow compete with Python in certain aspects)