Deno's Decline

Monday 28 Apr 2025 The future of Deno Land Inc. is not looking bright. Their commercial product Deno Deploy claims to be “edge” hosting with “massive global scale”. JavaScript applications on Deno Deploy run server-side logic geographically close to users, offering low latency and great performance. Except that’s a bit of a stretch if we’re being honest. Deno provide a list of regions in their documentation (take a peek if you want spoilers). Between ’23–2024 I gave Deno Deploy a fair shot but my personal experience was negative. I left feedback amongst others’ and moved on. Well, I did keep an eye on one thing… Serverless, anyone? Back in January 2024 a few people noted that Deno Deploy had dropped from 35 regions to just twelve (12) worldwide. For example, Seoul moved to Tokyo, response times went from 8ms to 42ms! @Elefunc on Twitter I would have been happy seeing 42ms to begin with. Anyway, the original 35 wasn’t impressive but twelve is frankly pitiful if I’m being brutal ... Read full article.