Dino is a free and open-source JavaScript runtime built on Google's V8 Engine, Rust, and Tokyo.

It's designed to offer a more secure and standardized alternative to Node.js with native TypeScript support.

Deno 2.0 just released, and it's a significant update, focused on improved compatibility with Node.js and addressing developer feedback.

Some of the key features are backwards compatibility with Node.js and addressing developer feedback. Some of the key features are backwards compatibility with Node.js and NPM, native support for

package.jason, and node modules, and a stabilized standard library.

Luca Kassanato is a software engineer for Dino, and he spoke about the project on Software Engineering

Daily in 2023. We're excited to

have Luca join the show again to talk about the many changes introduced in Dino 2.0.

Kevin Ball, or K. Ball, is the vice president of engineering at Mento and an independent

coach for engineers and engineering leaders. He co-founded and served as CTO for two companies, founded the San

Diego JavaScript meetup, and organizes the AI inaction discussion group through latent space.

Check out the show notes to follow KBall on Twitter or LinkedIn or visit his website, k to the show.

Hey, thanks for having me.

Yeah, absolutely.

Excited to have this conversation.

Let's maybe start. Do you want to, I know you've been on the show before, but maybe reintroduce yourself to our listeners, who you are, your background, and what your role is with Dino.

Yeah. So I'm Luca Kassanato. I work on Dino. I've been at the Dino company for four years, working all kinds of stuff there. Initially, the website, documentation,

then I moved into working on the open source runtime. I then spent a year and a half leading

our Dino Deployed team that builds our cloud product. And now recently have worked more on

JISR and our new JavaScript registry. Well, yeah, not really Dino's project, but something that we've initially worked on.

And then, yeah, Dino 2 most recently, getting that release stripped.

So let's talk about Dino 2.

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