Cloudflare acquires Deno to improve its Workers programming model

Cloudflare is acquiring Deno, the startup behind the runtime created by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl and Bert Belder, to improve its Workers platform. The companies say Deno’s recent open source celld project aligns with Cloudflare’s goal of making the Workers model more portable and mainstream; deal terms were not disclosed.

The deal signals Cloudflare’s push to make edge-native development feel less proprietary and more like a standard way to build servers. By embracing open source compatibility, Cloudflare may reduce lock-in concerns while expanding developer adoption of its broader compute platform.