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Posted by ilreb 18 hours ago

Cloudflare acquires Deno(deno.com)
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sick_of_slop 13 hours ago|
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oh_ok_lol 18 hours ago||
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weird-eye-issue 18 hours ago||
Cloudflare is a publicly traded company.
officialchicken 18 hours ago|||
There is nothing that requires a VC to sell part or all of their shares when an IPO occurs. And you can read their S1[0] to verify.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477333/000119312519...

weird-eye-issue 15 hours ago||
> There is nothing that requires a VC to sell part or all of their shares when an IPO occurs

Okay, but I never said there was, so nice strawman argument

At this point they are already up 1000% on their investment

oh_ok_lol 18 hours ago||||
No people on the Boards of both companies? Sorry for being cynical. Seen so much funny stuff in this industry. Good for Deno. Better choice given the talent behind it than Bun, IMHO.
rvz 18 hours ago|||
...And the VCs who invested in Deno will be getting their return from Cloudflare acquiring it, since they are "not allowed to lose".

They would rather have Deno pursue an acquisition instead of shutting down and losing their investment.

The only questionable detail about this announcement is it was for an undisclosed amount. Make of that what you will.

weird-eye-issue 17 hours ago||
> not allowed to lose

I mean that's just not how it works, most VC investments go to zero and they know that.

oh_ok_lol 17 hours ago||
So what am I supposed to do, just congratulate them and avoid any critical thought so as not to get downvoted into negative territory on my first day commenting on HM after 5 years of staying away for this exact reason?
4729738210 17 hours ago||
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AtNightWeCode 14 hours ago||
It was pretty naive to stand in front of that NodeJS train.
culi 16 hours ago||
Welp. All tech eventually gets bought out by military contractors or grows big enough to become one.
hoppp 16 hours ago||
So Cloudflare killed Deno

Its no longer gonna be supported after 1 year

In that case Deno is not joining cloudflare, it's got eaten.

I invested a lot and use deno everywhere. Can't trust anything these days.

Lets fork it into opendeno. I like to have an all-in-one swiss army knife tool.

pier25 14 hours ago|
> So Cloudflare killed Deno

Uh no. The lack of users killed Deno.

hoppp 14 hours ago||
Platforms like supabase or netlify use deno for serverless functions, so they should have been supporting it more.
pier25 13 hours ago||
Aren't Supabase or Netlify customers of Deno Deploy?
netlipapa 44 minutes ago|||
Netlify used to be but isn't anymore: https://www.netlify.com/blog/edge-functions-firecracker-micr...
hoppp 7 hours ago|||
I don't think so, I think they just used deno as a runtime with their own cloud.

One of them should fork if it's cheaper than migrating because a lot of Deno code is not portable.

rattray 18 hours ago||
As a bystander, I'm excited by this. I don't know what it'll be, but I have a sense some interesting, powerful, and secure new ways of shipping code could come from this marriage...
bilalq 15 hours ago|
Time and again, staying on the mainstream node/npm stack continues to be the validated choice. I've seen this happen with io.js, bun, and deno. The situation has been similar for yarn/bun and most alternatives on the package manager side.

Of course, that's not to say the work done on these platforms was wasted. The divide around io.js was meaningful to getting things moving faster and change the governance structure. Deno and bun both showcased things Node could be doing better and some of that was folded back in.

And in spite of all those past experiences, I still find myself using pnpm over npm today. I'm sure npm will continue to evolve and eventually the critical features of pnpm will just be part of core npm. But the gap today is massive enough that pnpm over npm feels critical. The disk usage and performance wins are life-changing for daily work and CI flows.