Comment by wiseowise

> Why do you find it better than Python?

I said already - the main reason is you can import files by relative file path.

You can get close to the Deno UX with uv and a script like this:

  #!/usr/bin/env -S uv run --script
  #
  # /// script
  # requires-python = ">=3.12"
  # dependencies = ["httpx"]
  # ///
  import httpx
  print(httpx.get("https://example.com"))

But you still have to deal with the venv e.g. for IDE support, linting and so on. It's just more janky than Deno.

I wish someone would make a nice modern scripting language with arbitrary precision integers, static types, file path imports, third party dependencies in single files, etc. Deno is the closest thing I've found but in spite of how good Typescript is there are still a ton of Javascript warts you can't get away from (`var`, `==`, the number format, the prototype system, janky map/reduce design, etc.)

For me, it's mostly that I'm more comfortable with TS/JS ecosystem... Deno is really nice in that you can import module references directly... I guess you can do similar with uv installed and have dependencies in comments in the top of the file (in another comment).

For me, though TS is something I'm generally using anyway, web projects, etc. I'm comfortable with it, and there are modules for almost everything under the sun.. except a working MS-SQL client for Deno.