Comment by atif089
8 hours ago
I'm trying to understand this. Cloudflare wants the people to work on different priorities or cloudflare wants deno to die?
In the case of the latter, I'm wondering why. Most of cloudflares architecture like workers support js runtimes so wouldnt investment into deno be more strategic than other priorities
I'm more thinking of "Deno (the company) lost interest/faith in Deno (the runtime), so they were looking for an out". They like working with runtimes, so Cloudflare is probably a good choice.
I guess this is why so much core staff left suddenly some months ago.
Ryan for one said as much a few hours ago right here[1]: he's more interested in building a better architecture for server development than maintaining what was ultimately evolving into a Node-compatible runtime.
Sounds reasonable to me, and I wish him and his team the best as they continue to develop celld/workerd.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50023277
It’s likely that this could be true but they simply have something else they want the acquihired to work on and feel Deno would be a distraction. At least they’re being honest with it instead of letting development stall and all the ill will that comes with the usual slow death by acquisition