Cloudflare acquires Deno to boost Workers
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Cloudflare is acquiring Deno, the startup behind the JavaScript and TypeScript runtime of the same name, and folding its engineers into the team that builds Cloudflare Workers. Financial terms weren't disclosed. Deno raised $26 million in total, including a Series A led by Sequoia, TechCrunch reports. The deal arrived with an unusual backstory. In August, Deno released celld, an open-source implementation of the Workers programming model, aimed at developers who want to run distributed apps on their own infrastructure. Cloudflare says it was "delighted" by the project, and it's now merging celld with workerd, its open-source Workers runtime. Found us on Google? Add tbreak as a preferred source to see more of our stories in Top Stories. In a post on the Cloudflare blog, Kenton Varda, principal engineer for Workers, said the aim is to make it far easier to self-host Workers and Durable Objects, so developers can use the same primitives outside Cloudflare's network. Durable Objects are small, individually addressable servers, each with its own SQLite database. Varda admitted that workerd's Durable Objects support has been its biggest production gap, because it's limited to a single instance. Ryan Dahl, who created Node.js and co-founded Deno with Bert Belder, wrote that the team is "joining Cloudflare to make the Workers programming model a mainstream way to build servers."...
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