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Cloudflare buys Deno to strengthen Workers platform
Cloudflare acquires the Deno runtime startup to improve its Workers programming model and platform for building software on its network.
In brief
Cloudflare acquires the Deno runtime startup to improve its Workers programming model and platform for building software on its network. Cloudflare acquired Deno on Friday to improve its Workers programming platform, which lets customers build and run software on Cloudflare's network. Originally reported by TechCrunch.
Cloudflare acquires Deno
Cloudflare announced Friday it is acquiring Deno, the startup behind the programming runtime of the same name, to improve its Workers platform.
What Deno brings to Workers
Deno, co-founded by Bert Belder and Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, recently launched celld, an open source implementation of Workers that Cloudflare principal engineer Kenton Varda said delighted the team.
Cloudflare defends its approach
Varda argued that contrary to popular theory, Cloudflare did not make Workers work differently to create lock-in, saying being open source and giving people an escape hatch is good business.
“being open source and giving people an escape hatch is good business”
Dahl's vision for Workers
Ryan Dahl wrote that his team is joining Cloudflare to make the Workers programming model a mainstream way to build servers. Financial terms were not disclosed.
“joining Cloudflare to make the Workers programming model a mainstream way to build servers”
The one thing
Cloudflare acquired Deno on Friday to improve its Workers programming platform, which lets customers build and run software on Cloudflare's network.
