I'd been wanting to try taking the time to make an api compatible version in Node or Deno, only so it was in a language/platform I'd be better able to participate in future development/enhancement on.
Again, keeping the API the same, and the same database and data structures to start with. I'm no expert in lamernews... I only did enough so far to make it easy to spin up via a docker-compose.yml file and some minor changes to support environment variables for a couple config bits.