--- title: Why Did Cloudflare Buy Deno Just to Shut It Down? description: An investigative breakdown examines Cloudflare's acquisition of Deno, revealing that the Deno runtime will get only one more year of bug fixes before... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/h9xm7xxbj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why Did Cloudflare Buy Deno Just to Shut It Down? | daily.dev og:description: An investigative breakdown examines Cloudflare's acquisition of Deno, revealing that the Deno runtime will get only one more year of bug fixes before... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/h9xm7xxbj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/h9xm7XXBJ.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why Did Cloudflare Buy Deno Just to Shut It Down? **[Debajyati Dey](https://daily.dev/sources/5zahwgrigj4y3vq3jilbs)** · [@debajyatidey](https://daily.dev/debajyatidey) · 18 upvotes · 5 comments ## Summary An investigative breakdown examines Cloudflare's acquisition of Deno, revealing that the Deno runtime will get only one more year of bug fixes before development ends, with Deno Deploy shutting down 6 months after that. Commit data shows contributions collapsed over 90% between June and September 2026, with most remaining work done by two people, well before the October 9th announcement. The piece traces warning signs: a 2025 layoff of roughly half the staff that was never disclosed, shrinking free-tier limits, a pivot toward a new self-hostable project called Deld that Cloudflare's announcement focuses heavily on, and ambiguity around pricing, trademark, Deno KV, and migration help for non-paying users. Unlike Anthropic's acquisition of Bun or Cloudflare's purchase of Void Zero (Vite), this is the only deal that puts a firm end date on the acquired runtime itself, despite Deno remaining MIT licensed and forkable. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@dabworx** · 2 upvotes > What's going to happen to Supabase? **@adiaga** · 1 upvotes > They will release a new service most likely. **@baz14** · 1 upvotes > Dahl is a good dev, but I see this sale as a betrayal of the community. He encouraged devs to move from Node.js to Deno, and then he basically killed Deno himself🤷 > > Node.js is a good example of how a project can survive not only without its creator, but even when its creator speaks against it 😎 > > Apple offered Torvalds a job, but he didn't betray the community or abandon Linux. Or take Monty with MySQL. He didn't betray the community either. But, he used the situation to his advantage... twice 😉 ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Cloudflare shutting down Deno is news, not just PR](https://daily.dev/posts/cloudflare-shutting-down-deno-is-news-not-just-pr-7na2obsi3) · Lobsters · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [404 Deno CEO not found](https://daily.dev/posts/404-deno-ceo-not-found-onnca8fku) · Hacker News · 22 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#nodejs](https://daily.dev/tags/nodejs), [#cloudflare](https://daily.dev/tags/cloudflare), [#deno](https://daily.dev/tags/deno) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/h9xm7xxbj) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/h9xm7xxbj","headline":"Why Did Cloudflare Buy Deno Just to Shut It Down?","text":"Shared: Why Did Cloudflare Buy Deno Just to Shut It Down?","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/h9xm7xxbj","datePublished":"2026-10-15T05:48:15.132Z","dateModified":"2026-10-15T05:49:07.033Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Debajyati Dey","url":"https://daily.dev/debajyatidey","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/127122455?v=4","description":"Web developer, Technical Writer & Deep Learning Engineer","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":31120}},"image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--foaA6JGU--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2004","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":18},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":5}],"sharedContent":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/o8TigJa9I"},"comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"What’s going to happen to Supabase?","datePublished":"2026-10-16T00:26:07.122Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/h9xm7XXBJ#c-6jWfH8k8j","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Derek B","url":"https://daily.dev/dabworx","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--PkRNvRi4--/f_auto/v1789825561/avatars/avatar_lCZyfgIdDZ9mojLCIXFg0?_a=BAMAMicg0"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"They will release a new service most likely.","datePublished":"2026-10-17T15:53:58.306Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/h9xm7XXBJ#c-FAmpu5AZ6","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Adi Agafitei","url":"https://daily.dev/adiaga","image":"https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/338271?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Dahl is a good dev, but I see this sale as a betrayal of the community. 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