Deno 2.8 ships this week. Our biggest minor release ever. Node.js compatibility: 42% → 75%+ this year. 500+ Node compat commits since 2.7. TypeScript 6.0.3, `import defer` support, several new subcommands, catalog workspaces, CPU flamegraphs, and many more.

Lately I've found myself repeating the same explanations to different people about how Node.js and V8 build/test/stay in sync with each other. To reduce the parroting, here's a blog post about the workflows, challenges I see, and some hands-on tips

Bun rewrote itself from Zig to Rust. AI did most of the work. 98% of the test suite passed on the first run. The question isn't hypothetical anymore. Should we rewrite Node.js in Rust?

The most annoying thing about the AI debate is the implicit suggestion that it's somehow a choice - a choice being made by some tech oligarchy - when in fact development would continue unabated without Altman/Dario/etc. You could personally decide to not use it - become Amish or whatever. Even if American AI companies as a whole could somehow be compelled to stop work, the Chinese will not. Society as a whole cannot opt-out of AI, any more than it can opt out of computers.

Cloudflare's security team spent the last few weeks testing Anthropic's Mythos against fifty of our own repositories. What we learned about offensive AI, why faster patching is the wrong reaction, and what the architecture around vulnerabilities has to look like next.

The odd part of all that is that Europe in the 60s / 70s / 80s had a similar quality of life for the most part AND a competitive economic / job market / research landscape. The protective layer must be preserved but excellence incentivized as in the 60s.

my company got breached the attacker had access for 11 days on day 3 he emailed our IT helpdesk complained that the VPN was slow our helpdesk reset his password upgraded his access tier to fix the "connectivity issue" and closed the ticket as resolved CSAT score: 5 stars we found this in the logs during forensics the attacker had rated our IT support excellent

People of More fixes, because undici and Windows hate us! If pi update fails for you, try manually updating pi via npm/pnpm/whatever you use. Also, you must have Node >= 22.19.0!

imo the intersting thing about the bun rewrite (which is dope btw, and you ragers have been reacting embarrassingly), is the possibility of a parallel universe where the node.js team gets a million dollars in tokens and a full time dedicated team

People of The @matteocollina release. Node 22 is now the minimum node version. Needed to upgrade to Undici 8+ which requires Node 22+. I'm sorry, but also welcome to the glorious future. Plus a bunch of minor fixes.

Europe is one of the best places in the world to live, but one of the hardest places to build and scale a company. After 5+ years in France, following 16+ in the US, I have a conflicted admiration for Europe. On the one hand, Europe has great potential. When I lived in the US, I was skeptical of the European quality-of-life argument. But after getting used to Sunday morning markets, walkable cities, and 4.5 meter ceilings, I get it. There are things that you simply cannot import or experience as a tourist. These things can make Europe very attractive for creative and intellectual work. I honestly believe some parts of Europe are the “best neighborhood” in the planet. But that’s not the full story. I am not only a husband and a dad. I am also an entrepreneur. I founded a company in the US 12+ years ago that has offices in the US and Chile and clients throughout the world. I live in France, yet I have not opened a subsidiary here. That is telling. We once hired someone in France through one of those remote employment platforms. The person received about 5,000 euros net per month, which is considered a very good salary here. But the total cost to the company was closer to 13,000 per month. That makes hiring feel less like a relationship between a company and a worker, and more like renting someone from the state. At the same time, you take an enormous amount of legal and administrative responsibility. The presumption is that all companies should operate like a 1960s car manufacturer. The response is simple. Don’t set up operations in Europe. But this is not a remote-work story. I know many small entrepreneurs in France who do not want to cross the threshold from being a one-person activity to becoming an employer. They sometimes refuse a new customer to stay small and avoid the obligations that come with hiring one person. That should worry us. Many social protections here are described as being provided by the state, but in practice, a lot of the cost and complexity of the implementation falls on the administrative shoulders of entrepreneurs. That is reasonable for a large energy company or bank. But for a small business, it is the difference between an entrepreneur waking up on a Monday to think about product or paperwork. Growth is not the enemy of the European social model. It is what enabled it. Much of the quality of life we enjoy here today dates back to growth incubated in the past. Growth that is increasingly hard to find. France once led frontier industries, like bicycles in the 1860s, cinema in the 1890s, and aviation and automobiles soon after. Since then, Europe built a more humane social model. But that model was built on the assumption that Europe and the US were the only two rich and industrialized places in the world. That is no longer true. Global competition in the 21st century is not what it used to be 50 years ago, and the padding built to protect us, may have grown into the handbrake that constrains the growth of the small and flexible firms we need to compete in new frontier sectors. We should be able to be critical about Europe in our own terms, without comparing ourselves to the US or China. Innovative parts of Europe, like Sweden or Switzerland, operate differently and provide clues. Sweden has embraced a dynamic of capitalization in its pension system for a long time in a continent where fewer people buy stocks. Switzerland, a place that shares an enormous amount of geography and culture with its neighbors, is built in part on strong internal competition among its cantons. But neither can light a candle to a French open-air market on a Sunday morning. A market where cash is king, and for a reason. Europe may be the best place in the world to live. But it is also one of the most challenging places to build and scale an innovative activity. The goal is not to weaken the European model. But to get to a place where we can lead again by example. The world will follow us, but only if we are ahead.