Simon Willison notes that Cloudflare is acquiring Deno outright, roughly two months after the Deno team released celld, its open source implementation of Cloudflare’s Durable Objects pattern, which Cloudflare wants to build on to make self-hosting workerd a first-class way to run apps using the Workers programming model. Deno itself will receive monthly bug-fix and security releases for one more year before Cloudflare ends runtime development, though it stays open source and the company welcomes others to continue it. Willison highlights Deno creator Ryan Dahl’s explanation on Hacker News that he agreed to the decision because Deno was sucked into the gravity well of Node compatibility and no longer solves big problems, while Dahl says he is more interested in the new server-development model celld represents, and Willison calls Deno’s permissions system his long-time favorite feature.
Deno is joining Cloudflare
Simon Willison notes that Cloudflare is acquiring Deno outright, roughly two months after the Deno team released celld, its open source implementation of Cloudflare's Durable Objects pattern, which Cloudflare wants to build on to make self-hosting workerd a first-class way to run apps using the Workers programming model. Deno itself will receive monthly bug-fix and security releases for one more year before Cloudflare ends runtime development, though it stays open source and the company welcomes others to continue it. Willison highlights Deno creator Ryan Dahl's explanation on Hacker News that he agreed to the decision because Deno was sucked into the gravity well of Node compatibility and no longer solves big problems, while Dahl says he is more interested in the new server-development model celld represents, and Willison calls Deno's permissions system his long-time favorite feature.
Source: Simonwillison