{
  "id": 13463100,
  "title": "Cloudflare acquires Deno to improve its Workers programming model",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/10/cloudflare-acquires-deno-to-improve-its-workers-programming-model",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-10T16:25:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "TechCrunch",
    "slug": "techcrunch",
    "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/10/cloudflare-acquires-deno-to-improve-its-workers-programming-model/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Cloudflare has acquired Deno, the startup behind the programming runtime also named Deno. The acquisition aims to enhance Cloudflare's Workers programming model and platform, which enables customers to develop and execute software on Cloudflare's network. Kenton Varda, principal engineer for Cloudflare Workers, stated that this move would \"delight\" the Cloudflare team. Deno, co-founded by Bert Belder and Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, recently unveiled celld, an open-source implementation of Workers, which impressed Varda.\n\nVarda challenged the notion that Cloudflare made Workers diverge from other cloud platforms to foster \"lock-in.\" Instead, the company believes that being open-source and providing an escape route is advantageous. Ryan Dahl, Deno's co-founder, expressed his excitement about joining Cloudflare to promote the Workers programming model as a mainstream method for building servers. The financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. Deno had secured $26 million in total funding, with a Series A round led by Sequoia.",
  "summary": "Cloudflare will use this acquisition to improve its Workers programming model and platform.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 4,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Dev.to",
        "title": "Cloudflare adds to Deno team to continue celld",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/cloudflare-suma-al-equipo-de-deno-para-continuar-celld",
        "published": "2026-10-09T14:28:59.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Lobsters",
        "title": "Cloudflare shutting down Deno is news, not just PR",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/cloudflare-shutting-down-deno-is-news-not-just-pr",
        "published": "2026-10-09T21:20:03.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Cloudflare acquires Deno, co-founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, which had developed an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Workers and had raised $26M (Paul Sawers/The New Stack)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/10/cloudflare-acquires-deno-co-founded-by-node-js-creator-ryan-dahl",
        "published": "2026-10-10T05:10:02.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}