I'm very sad Deno is going away, even though I've never used it nor did I plan to use it.

It is a bit hypocritical in a sense. Similar to how I was sad that a local restaurant recently closed down. In the past two years I went there maybe three times total. But I just liked having it there as an option.

Deno had a ton of good ideas but I just never felt confident that it would have the lasting power. Some of the early decisions, like their initial refusal to fully support package.json and the npm eco-system, made me unsure of their suitability as the basis for a business.

But I always wanted them to succeed. In the same way I always wanted Heroku to succeed even though I never used their service.

More options are better. But I guess "use it or lose it" applies. Did I dodge a bullet or contribute to the downfall?