Cloudflare Acquires Deno, Team to Focus on Workers
Cloudflare is acquiring Deno, with the full Deno team joining and Deno discontinuing its own runtime and cloud hosting service. Terms were not disclosed.
Cloudflare announced it is acquiring Deno, the runtime company co-founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl. The entire Deno team will join Cloudflare as part of the deal, according to digitaltoday.co.kr. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
As part of the agreement, Deno will discontinue its own runtime and cloud hosting service. Deno engineers will instead focus on developing Cloudflare's serverless computing platform Workers.
Cloudflare will integrate Celld into its own open-source runtime workerd. The integration project will remain open source.
Background
Deno was founded in 2018 with the goal of solving Node.js security and dependency management problems, and raised about $26 million through two funding rounds. It later launched Deno Deploy and competed with Workers. In August, Deno released Celld, an open-source project that lets developers use the Workers programming model on their own servers.
Quick answers
What happens to Deno's runtime and cloud hosting service?
Deno will discontinue its own runtime and cloud hosting service as part of the acquisition.
What will the Deno team work on at Cloudflare?
The entire Deno team will join Cloudflare, where engineers will focus on developing the serverless computing platform Workers.
How much did Cloudflare pay for Deno?
The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.