Kotlin support Node.js and npm libraries ok ? But...

# javascript

[Ayfri]

Kotlin support Node.js and npm libraries ok ?

But when Deno ? cheers

[Big Chungus]

Probably never. Very niche market to justify the effort

[Ayfri]

Deno is the successor of Node, so it will maybe be more used than Node in a few years

[napperley]

If Deno was the successor to Node then it would be rapidly gaining market share, and be in the position where it is close to overtaking Node.

[Ayfri]

But for now Node works so there is no direct reason for people to change

[Big Chungus]

Lol deno is an alternative to node at best. Definitely not a successor.

[Big Chungus]

Plus given that it doesn't use a package manager, I doubt it'll become mainstream anytime soon.

[Ayfri]

It totally use one deno/x, but every URL that returns TS/JS can be imported.

[Ayfri]

Deno is developed by the same developers from Node, and has a lot more new great features, it's its successor.

[Big Chungus]

I disagree. I see deno as only useful for scripting, not enterprise projects, But that's a matter of opinion, not fact, so let's just leave it at that.

[Big Chungus]

In any case, deno not having "traditional" package manager is a big nono for kotlin integration (how would you declare dependencies in gradle for it?)

[Ayfri]

For now Deno is effectively maybe not enough stable to be use for enterprise projects, but honestly it works great, I've not made a lot of projects with, but it could definitely be a concurrent of Node in a few years, we'll see. But already now it fixes a lot of Node's problems with simple/integrated solutions.

[Nikky]

i guess you would need annotations for each url you want to import and a kapt thing to generate code from those

[Nikky]

which would make the development flow rather.. awkward