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Cloudflare acquires Deno to make Workers self-hostable

Leading workerd self-hosting effort at Cloudflare

Cloudflare acquired Deno, the startup founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, in a deal announced October 9. Deno's runtime gets a year of maintenance, Deno Deploy shuts down in six months, and the team moves to Cloudflare.

Updated Oct 18

Notable Quotes

We're joining Cloudflare to make the Workers programming model a mainstream way to build servers.

from Cloudflare acquires Deno to make Workers self-hostable · Updated Oct 18

Running a fleet of Workerd instances will require only an industry-standard object storage bucket for coordination and storage.

from Cloudflare acquires Deno to make Workers self-hostable · Updated Oct 18

I am now of the opinion that if you're choosing Node.js for building servers, you're doing it wrong.

from Cloudflare acquires Deno to make Workers self-hostable · Updated Oct 18