Deno is a JS/TypeScript runtime from the creator of node, with built-in sandboxing and URLs for importing packages without a central npm server: https://blog.logrocket.com/what-is-deno/
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I'm never sure how to convert words with hyphens into SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE. For example, should built-in function be BUILT_IN_FUNCTION or BUILTIN_FUNCTION?
One nice feature of cargo that I wasn't previously aware of: you don't need to do anything after updating your Cargo.toml.
In npm, you need to remember to `npm i` after changing package.json. It's not declarative and the state can get out of sync.
I made some changes to a node express project that I haven't touched in almost five years. I was pleasantly surprised that I only needed to update one dependency to get it working again!
(It was sqlite3, which is a native dependency using node-gyp.)