Cloudflare reportedly acquires Deno to develop its Workers programming model

The Deno team joins Workers development

According to TechCrunch, Cloudflare announced it is acquiring Deno, the startup behind the Deno programming runtime. Cloudflare Workers principal engineer Kenton Varda said the acquisition will be used to improve the Workers programming model and platform. Deno co-founder Ryan Dahl wrote that the team is joining Cloudflare to make the Workers programming model a mainstream way to build servers. Financial terms were not disclosed.

The article does not provide a comparable pre-acquisition condition for Deno or Cloudflare Workers.

Cloudflare is reportedly bringing Deno and its team into the company to improve the Workers programming model and platform.

The reported acquisition would place the Deno runtime team inside the company operating Cloudflare Workers, linking Deno’s development directly to a platform for running customer software on Cloudflare’s network.