Cloudflare buys Deno to strengthen Workers platform
Cloudflare said it is acquiring Deno, the startup behind the Deno runtime. Cloudflare principal engineer Kenton Varda said the deal will improve the Workers programming model and platform, and he praised Deno's recent open-source Workers implementation, celld. Deno co-founder Ryan Dahl said his team is joining Cloudflare to make the Workers programming model a mainstream way to build servers; financial terms were not disclosed.
Cloudflare disclosed on Friday that it will take over Deno, the company behind the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime? Wait material says programming runtime of same name. It doesn't specify JS/TS. Avoid inventing. Deno was started by Bert Belder and Ryan Dahl, the latter known for creating Node.js. The startup had raised $26 million overall, with Sequoia leading a Series A. Terms of the purchase were not made public.
Cloudflare principal engineer Kenton Varda said the deal will refine Workers, its system for letting customers run software across Cloudflare's network. He pointed to Deno's new celld, an open-source Workers implementation, as a development the Cloudflare team welcomed. Varda also rejected the idea that Workers was designed to trap users, saying open source and an exit path make business sense. Dahl said his team will join Cloudflare to push the Workers model toward mainstream server building.
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Second: Cloudflare56 principal57 engineer58 Kenton59 Varda60 said61 the62 deal63 will64 refine65 Workers66, its67 syste
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