Cloudflare acquires Deno, runtime gets a year of support and a celld pivot

Cloudflare has acquired Deno, the company behind the server-side JavaScript and TypeScript runtime. Ryan Dahl and 12 colleagues will work on Cloudflare Workers and merge celld into workerd for self-hosting; Deno Deploy shuts down in six months while the runtime stays open source.

• Deno will receive bug fixes and security patches for one more year
• Deno Deploy runs for six months, with migration support to Workers
• celld is a single Rust binary running Workers and Durable Objects
• Dahl and 12 colleagues join Cloudflare to build out Workers