Cloudflare Acquires Deno as Ryan Dahl's Team Pivots to Self-Hosted Workers Runtime

Cloudflare has acquired Node.js creator Ryan Dahl's startup Deno for undisclosed terms, with the entire Deno team joining Cloudflare to merge its open-source `celld` project with Cloudflare's Workerd runtime. Deno's standalone runtime gets only bug fixes and security updates for one year before development ceases; Deno Deploy shuts down in six months with paid users migrated to Cloudflare Workers. Deno had raised $26M including a $21M Sequoia-led Series A.