Deno joins Cloudflare as its Deploy service begins a six-month wind-down
Deno’s entire team is joining Cloudflare to work on a shared platform, including applications running on developers’ own infrastructure. The move sets different deadlines for existing users: Deploy hosting has six months left, while the independent runtime is due to receive a year of maintenance. The open-source code remains available, and the JSR package registry continues with its infrastructure moving to Cloudflare.
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Deno’s team moves to a shared platform
Deno, a runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript applications, is moving its entire team to Cloudflare, the internet-infrastructure company. The joint effort focuses on a shared platform for Workers applications, including software hosted on infrastructure managed by developers themselves.[1], [2]
Founder Ryan Dahl announced the move on 9 October. The team is directing future development toward this combined work rather than maintaining its own separate runtime and hosting business. Work is being brought together with Cloudflare’s Workers and Durable Objects teams.[1]
Deploy and the runtime follow different deadlines
Under Deno’s announced schedule, Deploy hosting continues for six months before shutting down. Paying customers have been offered help migrating to Cloudflare Workers. This gives users of the hosted service a shorter transition period than users relying on the runtime alone.[1]
The runtime is due to receive monthly bug-fix and security releases for a year, after which the current team plans to end its development. Deno remains open source, and the announcement welcomes other developers who want to carry the project forward.[1]
Package services continue as development changes
JSR, Deno’s TypeScript-oriented package registry, continues operating with its infrastructure moving to Cloudflare. Support also continues for rusty_v8, a software component used by the runtime, with work toward integration into Cloudflare’s workerd runtime.[1]
Dahl links the move to celld, a project built on the Workers programming model for distributed applications. Durable Objects combine persistent state, WebSocket connections and a JavaScript interface. Dahl sees those capabilities as useful for infrastructure running AI agents that carry out tasks.[1]
