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decaffeinate vs Deno: What are the differences?
What is decaffeinate? *Convert CoffeeScript projects to modern JS *. Convert your CoffeeScript source to modern JavaScript with decaffeinate. For real-world use cases, spend some time understanding the different options and nuances of the decaffeinate tool.
What is Deno? A secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript. It is a secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript built with V8, Rust, and Tokio.
decaffeinate and Deno can be primarily classified as "Javascript Utilities & Libraries" tools.
Some of the features offered by decaffeinate are:
- Fully automated conversion of the CoffeeScript language to modern JavaScript
- Preserve whitespace, formatting, and comments as much as possible to allow a full one-time conversion of your CoffeeScript source code
- Focus on correctness as the first priority, with some options to generate nicer code at the expense of 100% correctness
On the other hand, Deno provides the following key features:
- Dependency inspector
- Code formatter
- Bundling
decaffeinate is an open source tool with 2.52K GitHub stars and 94 GitHub forks. Here's a link to decaffeinate's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of decaffeinate
Pros of Deno
- Typescript18
- Secure14
- Open source13
- Formatting9
- Javascript9
- Great std library9
- Testing7
- ESM6
- Easy Config5
- No package-lock.json3
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Cons of decaffeinate
Cons of Deno
- Still in early development3
- Bad Rust plugin support1