Cloudflare Acquires Deno to Enhance Workers Programming Model

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Cloudflare announced on Friday that it has acquired Deno, the startup behind the Deno runtime. Kenton Varda, lead engineer for Cloudflare Workers, said the acquisition will enhance the Workers programming model and platform. Deno was co-founded by Ryan Dahl, creator of Node.js, and Bert Belder. The team recently launched celld, an open-source version of Workers. Varda stated that Cloudflare aims to provide an exit path through open-source, rather than locking users in. Dahl said the team is joining to make Workers a mainstream model for building servers. Financial terms were not disclosed. Deno had raised $26 million, including a Series A led by Sequoia. This on-chain news represents a network upgrade for Cloudflare’s infrastructure.
CoinDesk reports:

Cloudflare announced on Friday that it has acquired Deno, the startup behind the namesake programming runtime.

Kenton Varda of Cloudflare said that Cloudflare will use this acquisition to enhance its Workers programming model and platform. The platform enables customers to build and run software on Cloudflare’s network. Varda is the chief engineer of Cloudflare Workers.

Deno was co-founded by Bert Belder and Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js. The company recently launched celld, an open-source implementation of Workers. Varda wrote that this made the Cloudflare team "very happy."

Varda also stated that, contrary to a popular theory that the company makes Cloudflare Workers operate differently from other cloud platforms to create "lock-in," Cloudflare believes that open-sourcing and providing users with an exit path is good business.

Dahl wrote that his team is "joining Cloudflare to make the Workers programming model a mainstream way to build servers."

The financial terms of this acquisition were not disclosed. Deno has previously raised a total of $26 million in funding, including a Series A round led by Sequoia.

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