never used deno or paid much attention to it despite all the fancy marketing.

i always wondered how they were making money

Grats on the bag.

Disappointing news to see it shut down, but maybe the writing was on the wall after they laid off some of their folks.

I've been using deno for years and built some nontrivial services in it. When deno added support for npm packages, the early days were pretty rough. I ran into lots of issues with packages and spent a lot of time reading random github issue threads. It's been pretty smooth sailing for the last year or so though.

At least I can use ai to help migrate off of deno.

https://dbushell.com/2026/03/20/denos-decline-and-layoffs/

Gotta say the fate of Deno has been pretty disappointing I had high hopes for it

Can't believe they bought out Vite and now Deno. All our toolchains are getting bought out by military contractors

Congrats to the team! Sad to see deno go away, it’s a really great tool

I’m disappointed that they discontinue the Deno runtime. It really is a joy to use.

I think they ran out of money and joining Cloudflare was their only remaining option.

Deno was a good idea in the Old World of software development before LLMs, and simply doesn’t make sense anymore.

Man, this year has been nothing but bad news for me. This is disappointing, and really makes me question what is the point if even open source is now this easily enshittified or "killed by [insert big tech co here]." I've spent years now using Deno nearly exclusively for new projects, and saw it as the most sane JS server runtime. This also makes me hesitant to use anything with Ryan Dahl's name on it ever again.