Node.js creator ditches Deno to work on open source Cloudflare Workers
You're building servers 'wrong,' says Ryan Dahl as Cloudflare gobbles his Deno startup
Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js, has decided to abandon Deno and focus on open source Cloudflare Workers. In July, Cloudflare purchased Dahl's company Deno, which was built around a server-side JavaScript runtime of the same name. However, Deno will not have a future at Cloudflare and will be maintained for a year before development ends.
Dahl believes that building servers with Node.js is the wrong approach. He sees Cloudflare Workers as a better alternative, as they operate at a different layer than traditional server models. Dahl's Node.js, released in 2009, sparked a revolution in web application architecture and currently powers around 30 million websites worldwide.
Deno, Dahl's attempt to improve Node, was released in 2018 but could not gain significant traction due to its difficulty in deviating from Node. Now, Cloudflare will provide Deno with bug fixes and security patches for the next year while Dahl searches for a new home for the open source project. Dahl has also developed celld, an open source implementation of Cloudflare's Durable Objects, which allows developers to build stateful, real-time distributed applications.
However, as celld can only be hosted on Cloudflare, Dahl is working on merging celld with workerd to create a stand-alone JavaScript/WebAssembly runtime that can be used anywhere.
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