GoKawiilCloudflare hires entire Deno team to build distributed-app platform 'celld'
Cloudflare announced that the full Deno team is joining the company, bringing its work on the Deno runtime and Deno Deploy into Cloudflare's infrastructure. The team says its focus will shift to a new project called celld, built on Cloudflare's Workers programming model, aimed at simplifying how developers build and scale distributed server applications.
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The move suggests Cloudflare wants to absorb Deno's runtime expertise to push its Workers and Durable Objects platform as a standard way to build servers, both on its own network and elsewhere. For Deno users, it could mean future development effort shifts away from the standalone runtime toward Cloudflare's own infrastructure-centric model, raising questions about the project's independent trajectory.
- The entire Deno team, including its creator, is joining Cloudflare.
- Future development will prioritize celld, a distributed-app system built on Cloudflare Workers.
- The goal stated is to make this programming model a default way to build servers on any infrastructure.
Source: deno.com, 2026-10-09
Published there as: “Deno Is Joining Cloudflare”
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