Cloudflare announced on Friday its acquisition of Deno, the startup responsible for the programming runtime of the same name. This move is intended to enhance Cloudflare's Workers programming model and platform, which enables customers to develop and run software on Cloudflare's network.
Kenton Varda, principal engineer for Cloudflare Workers, stated that the acquisition will be used to improve the Workers platform. Deno, co-founded by Bert Belder and Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, recently launched celld, an open-source implementation of Workers.
Ryan Dahl indicated that his team is joining Cloudflare with the goal of making the Workers programming model a mainstream method for building servers. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, though Deno had previously raised a total of $26 million.