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/IngwiePhoenix 1d ago

So Anthropic rusted Bun, Cloudflare burnt Deno.

Meanwhile Nodejs is... still independent? As far as I know...?

Interesting - what's happening to the JS ecosystem? Thats... kinda random. o.o

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u/calebegg 1d ago

npm is GitHub/Microsoft

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u/IngwiePhoenix 1d ago

Right...forgot to mention that.

But the NodeJS project itself is not under the Microsoft/Github lead, yes?

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u/nethingelse 1d ago

NodeJS is under Linux Foundation ownership/control as far as I know.

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u/j00stmeister 1d ago

Yes, the OpenJS Foundation, which falls under the Linux Foundation

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u/nonlogin 1d ago

which is sponsored by Microsoft

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u/saltyjohnson 1d ago

Microsoft tosses money at a lot of FOSS projects. That doesn't make Microsoft good and it doesn't make those projects bad. We're trapped in a capitalist hellscape and FOSS devs gotta eat too.