Father of Node.js joins old rival Cloudflare, Deno runtime to officially cease updates after one year

Beating AI News Flash: Cloudflare has announced that the entire Deno team is officially joining the company. Deno is a JavaScript/TypeScript runtime launched by Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js. The team also announced that for the next year, it will only provide bug fixes and security updates for the Deno runtime, after which official development will stop. The cloud hosting service Deno Deploy will also shut down in 6 months.

In a striking contrast, Ryan Dahl in 2022 regarded Cloudflare Workers as Deno Deploy's most direct competitor. Now Deno Deploy will exit the market, and the official team will assist paying customers in migrating to Cloudflare Workers. The Deno runtime will remain open source, and the community can take over development. The JavaScript package platform JSR will continue to operate, with its infrastructure moving to Cloudflare.

Next, Ryan Dahl will work with Deno co-founder Bert Belder to lead the integration of two open-source projects. One is celld, developed by the Deno team, which supports developers in running distributed Workers and Durable Objects on their own servers; the other is workerd, open-sourced by Cloudflare, which is the underlying runtime engine for Cloudflare Workers. Durable Objects can preserve application state and handle real-time connections, making them suitable for AI Agents that need to continuously record task progress.

The two sides plan to integrate celld's distributed capabilities into workerd, allowing developers to run this technology on their own servers and reduce dependence on the Cloudflare cloud platform.