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Cloudflare acquires Deno and plans to end runtime development after a year

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Cloudflare plans to support Deno with monthly bug-fix and security releases for another year, then end its runtime development while leaving it open source. Teams relying on Deno should consider the project's maintenance path.

What

Cloudflare acquired Deno and plans to build on celld to support self-hosting workerd for the Workers programming model.

How

Cloudflare will provide Deno runtime bug fixes and security updates for another year, then end its runtime development; Deno remains open source.

Why it matters

Engineers choosing a runtime should account for its support horizon and whether they can rely on community development afterward.

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