Node.js creator joins long-time rival Cloudflare; Deno runtime’s official updates are discontinued after one year.

Beating AI News: Cloudflare announced that the entire Deno team has officially joined the company. Deno, a JavaScript/TypeScript runtime created by Node.js founder Ryan Dahl, also revealed it will only provide bug fixes and security updates for the Deno runtime over the next year, after which official development will cease. Its cloud hosting service Deno Deploy will shut down in six months. In a notable twist, Ryan Dahl in 2022 named Cloudflare Workers as Deno Deploy’s most direct competitor. Now Deno Deploy is exiting the market, with the team assisting paying customers in migrating to Cloudflare Workers. The Deno runtime will remain open-source, with the community taking over its development. JavaScript package platform JSR will continue operations, with its infrastructure moving to Cloudflare. Moving forward, Ryan Dahl and Deno co-founder Bert Belder will lead the integration of two open-source projects: celld, built by the Deno team to let developers run distributed Workers and Durable Objects on their own servers; and workerd, Cloudflare’s open-source underlying runtime engine for Cloudflare Workers. Durable Objects store application state and handle real-time connections, making them ideal for AI agents that need to continuously track task progress. The two teams plan to integrate celld’s distributed capabilities into workerd, enabling developers to run the technology on their own servers and reduce reliance on Cloudflare’s cloud platform.