Deno is joining Cloudflare
Deno is joining Cloudflare The Deno team released the first version of celld back in August - their open source implementation of the Durable Objects pattern from Cloudflare Workers. Today, Cloudflare are acquiring Deno outright, with the goal of building on celld to "make workerd self-hosting a first-class supported way to build and run apps using the Workers programming model" (see the…
Deno, created by Ryan Dahl, has joined forces with Cloudflare in a strategic move. Deno's team released Celld, an open-source implementation of Cloudflare's Durable Objects pattern in August. Cloudflare's objective is to utilize Celld to enhance WorkerD, making it a primary supported way to develop and run applications using the Workers programming model.
However, there's a catch: Deno will only receive monthly updates for bug fixes and security patches for the next year before Cloudflare ceases its development. After this period, Deno will stay open source, inviting others to continue its development. Despite its open-source nature, Ryan Dahl, the creator of Deno and Node.js, decided to part ways due to his belief that Deno wasn't addressing significant problems.
Instead, Dahl is focusing on building new abstractions. Celld, built on object storage for coordination and persistence, offers a unique server development model, marked by its innovative permissions system allowing users to specify exact file and folder access, as well as network host permissions.
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