The Web Can't Afford a JavaScript Runtime Monoculture
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The Web Can't Afford a JavaScript Runtime Monoculture was first seen on Lobsters · Hottest on Oct 29, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 53 checks on 4 different days. Its best position was #6 of 25, reached on Nov 1, 03:21 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 2, 02:51 UTC.
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I think this argument makes way more sense on the client (browser) side, not server side. Is the “web” broadly speaking defined by the set of JS runtimes we can deploy on the backend? Maybe I’m biased since JS is one of the last languages I want to use server side, if at all. The issues of standards control client…
> Apple built Safari on an open-source engine called WebKit Nope, WebKit is Apple's fork that underlies Safari. The origin was [KHTML](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML).
Have Deno/Bun ever gained enough traction for Node not to be considered a monoculture?
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#6 on Lobsters · Hottest, on Nov 1, 03:21 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 30 minutes.
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It was first seen on Oct 29, 2026 and has been on the list on 4 days (53 checks) since.