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  "id": 15081841,
  "title": "Node.js creator ditches Deno to work on open source Cloudflare Workers",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/node-js-creator-ditches-deno-to-work-on-open-source-cloudflare-workers-15081841",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-16T20:20:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Register Science",
    "slug": "the-register-science",
    "url": "https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/10/16/nodejs-creator-ditches-deno-to-work-on-open-source-cloudflare-workers/5303662"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js, has decided to abandon his open source server-side JavaScript runtime, Deno, in favor of working on Cloudflare Workers platform. Last week, Cloudflare announced the acquisition of Dahl's company, Deno, to compete with the Node.js runtime. However, Deno will only be maintained at Cloudflare for another year before its development ends. Dahl believes that Node.js is the wrong choice for building servers and hopes that the new approach will be more beneficial. Cloudflare plans to use Deno's employees to expand its Workers platform, which is designed to run at the edge and provide a distributed environment for stateless micro-servers. Dahl's new project, celld, is an open source implementation of Cloudflare's Durable Objects, which allows developers to build stateful, real-time distributed applications. Dahl aims to merge celld's technology with Cloudflare's workerd, creating a stand-alone runtime that could run in 300 KB of memory per instance, a significant improvement over the memory requirements of Node.js and Deno.",
  "summary": "You're building servers 'wrong,' says Ryan Dahl as Cloudflare gobbles his Deno startup",
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      {
        "outlet": "Dev.to",
        "title": "Build log: turning one photo into a ~13-second racing meme video on Cloudflare Workers",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/build-log-turning-one-photo-into-a-13-second-racing-meme-video-on",
        "published": "2026-10-16T18:43:07.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Register",
        "title": "Node.js creator ditches Deno to work on open source Cloudflare Workers",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/node-js-creator-ditches-deno-to-work-on-open-source-cloudflare-workers",
        "published": "2026-10-16T20:20:05.000Z"
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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."
}