Cloudflare is partnering with Deno to improve the open-source Cloudflare Workers Runtime (workerd), addressing criticisms about vendor lock-in by developing better ecosystem tooling and making it easier for developers to migrate applications between platforms.
The Deno team is joining Cloudflare to advance server-side JavaScript development. The team will discontinue separate Deno runtime and Deploy service development, instead focusing on integrating Deno's innovations into Cloudflare's Workers and Durable Objects platform through a new programming model called celld.
Cloudflare announces Deno is joining the company. Cloudflare defends its Workers platform against lock-in criticism, arguing the design is simply better for cloud applications. The company open-sourced its Workers Runtime (workerd) to enable portability and now partners with Deno to improve ecosystem tooling around it.