Ryan Dahl: 'Why reimplement Node? It works.'

#​806 — October 13, 2026 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Deno is Joining Cloudflare (But…) — Maybe David Bushell saw the writing on the wall , as the Deno team isn't joining Cloudflare to keep working on Deno , but to fold celld into workerd so Durable Objects can be self-hosted ( more on that here ). The Deno runtime will get a final year of official fixes, Deno Deploy closes in six months, and JSR moves to Cloudflare's infrastructure. Ryan Dahl 💡 On Hacker News , Ryan Dahl noted that Deno "has been sucked into the gravity well of Node compatibility" before asking: "Why reimplement Node? I

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