Learning Deno and liking what I see

Today I learned why there's some buzz going on about Deno. As someone who has always found Node difficult, Deno is a welcome relief.

Recently I started solving some computable problems on Quora using C#. One of them was What are words with a vowel to consonant ration of 2:3?. Below is Deno code re-implementing the C#. Please note that the word-list in the Deno solution is different from that of the C# version (https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/38366/latest-collins-scrabble-words-list-in-text-file rather than https://users.cs.duke.edu/~ola/ap/linuxwords).

const rex = /[aeiou]{1}/ig;

const res = await fetch(
  "https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1oGDf1wjWp5RF_X9C7HoedhIWMh5uJs8s",
);

const body = new Uint8Array(await res.arrayBuffer());

const list = await new TextDecoder("utf-8").decode(body).split(/\r\n|\r|\n/g)
  .filter((line: string, index: number) => { // skip first two header lines
    return index > 1;
  })
  .filter((word: string) => {
    const match = word.match(rex);
    if (null !== match) {
      const vowelcount = match.length;
      const consonantcount = word.length - vowelcount;
      if (vowelcount % 2 === 0) {
        if (vowelcount / 2 * 3 === consonantcount) {
          return true;
        }
      }
    }
    return false;
  });

list.forEach((line: string) => {
  console.log(line);
});

There are probably better way to write that, but the await notation seemed fairly natural and made sense. Being able to use .filter was helpful too.

I think I'm going to enjoy learning Deno. Maybe you will too.

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Bruce Axtens

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