Deno joins Cloudflare; Deno Deploy shuts down in six months
Anyone hosting apps on Deno Deploy has half a year to move, and the Deno runtime gets just one more year of patches before development ends.
Developers who use Deno now have concrete deadlines. According to Deno's blog, published Oct. 9, the Deno Deploy hosting service will run for six more months and then shut down. Paying customers who move to Cloudflare Workers will get migration support from the company.
The JavaScript and TypeScript runtime, also called Deno, gets one more year of monthly releases with bug fixes and security patches. After that, development ends. It will stay open source, and Deno says it welcomes anyone who wants to continue it. The post does not name the license that will remain.
It all stems from the Deno team moving to Cloudflare, announced the same day on Cloudflare's blog by Ryan Dahl, creator of Deno and Node.js, and Kenton Varda, lead engineer on Workers. TechCrunch reports it as an acquisition and says neither company disclosed the price. The announcements also do not say whether the deal has closed.
What keeps running
JSR, the package registry, continues, with its infrastructure moving to Cloudflare. Cloudflare will also keep supporting rusty_v8, the bridge between Rust and the V8 JavaScript engine, with plans to fold it into workerd, the open version of the Workers engine.
Dahl and his co-founder Bert Belder will lead the merger of celld with workerd. Celld is an August project that Deno built to run Workers and Durable Objects on a company's own servers; it needs only one outside service, for object storage.
What nobody has tested
All the deadlines come from the companies' own announcements, and none gives an exact calendar date. Deno's blog does not say what happens to the runtime after the year, and its future depends on someone picking it up. Developer Simon Willison's personal blog calls it "the bad news" that Cloudflare will stop maintaining it.
No effects specific to users in Mexico have been reported: the change reaches any team that uses Deno. Cloudflare promises more announcements about this work in the coming months.
