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Crazy that Deno is still not workable on FreeBSD because of the Rust V8 bindings not being ported.

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Mond_|7 months ago

How big is the intersection of modern Javascript developers and FreeBSD users?

Not as big as Linux but I know a few FreeBSD shops that run NodeJS apps so it's not entirely crazy to think that there are more and they would want to try Deno. Besides making your OSS software compilable on *BSD/Linux/Mac/Win has historically been a good thing to do anyways.

gr4vityWall|7 months ago

Node.js is (maybe surprisingly) used a lot in less common operating systems like FreeBSD and Illumos.

shrubble|7 months ago

It's more than a little surprising that portability between different Unices is not given more emphasis. "Back in the day" a program being portable between Sun Solaris, HP's HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD was considered a sign of clean code.

jitl|7 months ago

Back in the day, Sun Solaris and HP-UX were not end-of-life, and FreeBSD had more equal industry footing with Linux. Now Linux is the clear winner in server OS UNIX by a wide margin. Also, Ryan Dhal worked at Joyent, a Illumos/Solaris shop when he built Node; perhaps that has informed his lack of interest in supporting FreeBSD these days.

ctz|7 months ago

Looks like it is in ports?

blinkingled|7 months ago

Trying to compile it - it's 2.2.0 but better than nothing. I haven't seen any upstream patches for Rust V8 for FBSD so maybe out of tree ones in the ports if it does compile.

timhh|7 months ago

I mean... you can probably see why they don't spend any effort on that.