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Deno is winding down its runtime as its team joins Cloudflare

vlt.io 6 min read Editor score 6/10

Deno's runtime will wind down over the next year, while JSR continues on Cloudflare infrastructure and the team works to merge Deno's celld into workerd. The shift offers a useful look at the direction of the JavaScript runtime ecosystem.

What

- Deno is joining Cloudflare, which is winding down investment in the Deno runtime over the next year.

How

- JSR will remain on Cloudflare infrastructure, while Deno's team is assigned to merge Deno's celld into workerd.

Why it matters

- Deno's competition pushed the JavaScript ecosystem toward capabilities it promoted, even as it adopted Node and npm compatibility.

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