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Cloudflare Acquires Deno Runtime Startup
10 Oct
Summary
- Cloudflare announced the acquisition of Deno, the programming runtime startup.
- The acquisition aims to enhance Cloudflare Workers' programming model.
- Deno's co-founders are joining Cloudflare to promote Workers as a mainstream server-building method.
Cloudflare announced on Friday its acquisition of Deno, the startup known for its programming runtime. This move is intended to bolster Cloudflare's Workers programming model and platform, enabling customers to develop and deploy software across Cloudflare's network.
Deno, co-founded by Ryan Dahl and Bert Belder, recently introduced celld, an open-source implementation of Workers. This development reportedly impressed the Cloudflare team.
Dahl expressed that his team is joining Cloudflare to elevate the Workers programming model into a widespread solution for server construction. The financial specifics of this acquisition have not been revealed, though Deno had previously secured $26 million in funding.
