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Cloudflare acquires Deno to improve its Workers programming model
TechCrunch • • business
Key Points:
- Cloudflare announced its acquisition of Deno, the startup behind the Deno programming runtime, to enhance its Workers platform.
- The acquisition aims to improve Cloudflare Workers, a platform that enables customers to build and run software on Cloudflare’s network.
- Deno, co-founded by Ryan Dahl (creator of Node.js) and Bert Belder, recently launched celld, an open source implementation of Workers that impressed the Cloudflare team.
- Cloudflare emphasizes its commitment to open source and providing users with flexibility, countering claims that it created Cloudflare Workers to lock customers in.
- Ryan Dahl and his team are joining Cloudflare to help make the Workers programming model a mainstream server-building approach.
