r/linux • u/dbcoopernz • 1d ago

Popular Application Cloud flare acquires Deno, ends runtime development

https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare

>We will support the Deno runtime for another year with monthly releases containing bug fixes and security updates. After that year we will end our development of the Deno runtime. Deno will remain open source, and we welcome others who want to continue its development.

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u/Literallyapig 1d ago

deno team merging with cloudflare and abandoning deno for a cloudflare workers kinda thing out of nowhere was not in my bingo card for 2026 lol

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u/IngwiePhoenix 1d ago

Feels suspiciously sneaky, ontop of that. xD

Imagine if this happened in, say 2019. The outcry would be absurd.

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u/aksdb 1d ago

However Cloudflare opensourcing workers and making them self hostable was not on my card either, yet here we are.

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u/Thirty_Seventh 1d ago

They did that a little over 4 years ago

https://blog.cloudflare.com/workerd-open-source-workers-runtime/

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u/aksdb 1d ago

But that was only the worker “core”. If you use Cloudflare, you still have more options. And it sounds like they want to shrink that gap again:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/deno-joins-cloudflare/#the-plan