Cloudflare buys Deno as Node.js creator Ryan Dahl joins with his team
Cloudflare is acquiring the startup behind the Deno JavaScript runtime. The Deno Deploy service will shut down in six months, while the runtime gets updates for one more year.
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Network and cloud provider Cloudflare is acquiring the company behind Deno, the JavaScript runtime created by Node.js inventor Ryan Dahl. Terms were not disclosed. The whole team is joining Cloudflare and will merge Celld, Deno's self-hosted take on the Cloudflare Workers platform, into Cloudflare's open-source Workerd runtime.
The Deno runtime will receive monthly bug-fix and security releases for one more year and remains open source under the MIT license. The Deno Deploy hosting service will shut down in six months, with migration help for paying customers. The JSR package registry will continue under Cloudflare.
"We're joining Cloudflare to make the Workers programming model a mainstream way to build servers," Dahl wrote. How Deno lives on is now up to the community, he said.