Cloudflare has acquired Deno, the open-source JavaScript and TypeScript runtime co-founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl. The news was reported by The New Stack and surfaced on Techmeme. Deno had raised $26 million and built Celld, a self-hosted alternative to Cloudflare Workers.
According to the report, Cloudflare is absorbing the Deno team, and Deno's own runtime is being wound down. The move matters because it removes a direct open-source challenger to Cloudflare Workers and consolidates key edge-computing talent under one roof.
What Deno built and why Cloudflare wanted it
Deno started as a security-focused rethink of Node.js, the runtime that powers much of the modern web. Under Dahl, it grew into a full platform with a hosted service and a self-hosted product called Celld that took direct aim at Cloudflare Workers.
Cloudflare Workers is the company's serverless platform for running code close to users. By acquiring Deno, Cloudflare gains the team behind a competing runtime and a deeper pool of expertise in JavaScript tooling and edge execution.
- Deno was co-founded by Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js.
- Deno had raised $26 million in funding.
- Celld was Deno's self-hosted take on Cloudflare Workers.
- Cloudflare is absorbing the Deno team.
- Deno's own runtime is being wound down.
