Comment by rfgplk
8 hours ago
Sorry, but even factoring in that this acquisition carries over the existing customer base and goodwill, this is still **** (censored because I aim to stay polite). Deno is factually speaking a one to two week project at this point (proven by the numerous JS runtimes already on the market). I genuinely do not see how this makes any sense whatsoever. If Cloudflare was seeking to hire the team behind Deno they could have done it at a fraction of the price paid. This, naturally, assumes they did pay anything and I can't be bothered to look up the exact $$$ amounts.
I think Deno’s VC money ran out (see the layoffs a few months ago) and Cloudflare offered a stable, well paying job, maybe with stock options.
Just this morning I checked the Deno blog (again like so often in recent weeks) to see if they are still alive. The number of mentions in Hacker News posts and comments was zero in recent weeks. The project was basically dead or abandoned already. Sucks, because I went all-in on Deno.