Tag: deno

Deno is created by the original developer of Node.js, Ryan Dahl, to address what he called 10 things I regret about Node.js. It did away with the NPM and the infamous node_modules. Deno is a single binary executable to run applications written in TypeScript and JavaScript.

However, while TypeScript and JavaScript are suitable for the majority of web applications, they could be inadequate for computationally intensive tasks, such as neural network training and inference, machine learning, and cryptography. In fact, Node.js itself often needs to use native libraries for those tasks (e.g., to use openssl for cryptography).

Without an NPM-like system to incorporate native modules, how do we write server-side applications that require native performance on Deno? WebAssembly is here to help! In this article, we will write high performance functions in Rust, compile them into WebAssembly, and run them inside your Deno application.