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Cloudflare acquires Deno to advance the Workers model
Cloudflare announces its acquisition of Deno with the aim of improving Workers. The deal draws in particular on celld, an open source implementation of Workers developed by Deno. The financial terms have not been disclosed, and the concrete changes to the platform remain to be specified.
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Cloudflare announced on Friday that it had acquired Deno, the company behind the runtime environment of the same name, TechCrunch reports. Kenton Varda, principal engineer for Cloudflare Workers, presents the deal as a way to improve the Workers programming model and platform, which enable software to be built and run on Cloudflare's network.
Deno, co-founded by Bert Belder and Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js, recently launched celld, an open source implementation of Workers. According to the article, this project attracted the Cloudflare team's interest. Ryan Dahl explains that his team is joining the company to encourage broader adoption of the Workers model for building servers.
The strategic focus therefore concerns the development model as much as bringing the teams together. Varda argues that making the code open and allowing users to leave the platform are choices that benefit Cloudflare's business. This position expresses an intention; it is not enough to establish that all applications can be migrated easily.
The financial terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed. The article also does not detail the changes developers will be able to use in Workers. The value of the deal will therefore have to be assessed on the basis of the improvements actually delivered and their terms of use.