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Comment by simonw

10 hours ago

I don't like how that's in the Deno post but gets no mention in the Cloudflare post. Seems like a pretty important detail!

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rancar2  9 hours ago

I think it’s covered appropriately for the audiences. The two posts are for different audiences and purposes. The Deno post by Ryan is for the Deno audience, which is mention at the top of his writing on the Cloudflare post that is for a broader audience of what this means for the Cloudflare audience: “For more on what's happening to the Deno runtime and our various efforts, see my post on the Deno blog.”

FWIW both Ryan and Kenton are very transparent in person, in public, and online over their professional careers. They will and do openly change their minds based on new information and opportunities as time goes along. Both are now founders of open source projects acquired by Cloudflare for the technical architecture talents seeing a future that they would like to build.

  • baobabKoodaa  5 hours ago

    There's no need to excuse this behavior. People who write announcements like this are dishonest to their core.

elcritch  9 hours ago

Definitely negative karma points for Cloudflare.

  • sysguest  9 hours ago

    well I just don't get it -- why?

    unless cloudflare's CEO is a friend of cloudflare people, so just want to financially them bail out...

    ...why acquire and kill? cloudflare can have more outreach and reputation by keeping deno alive

    • swiftcoder  9 hours ago

      > why? unless cloudflare's CEO is a friend of cloudflare people, so just want to financially them bail out...why acquire and kill?

      Aquihiring is a time-tested strategy to build out a team. The Deno folks likely have a bunch of experience that Cloudflare is well placed to make use of

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    • saghm  4 hours ago

      I assume the logic is something like this:

      - We want to do more work on our runtime and need people to do it

      - Those developers for that company over are there working on another runtime

      - Buying that company allows them to come work for us without any potential issues from investors in that other company