dang. i kind of viewed Deno as the Firefox of JS runtimes, especially after what happened to Bun. the headline was initially encouraging; Cloudflare is doing some good work in the Rust networking systems space. i hate that they’re shutting it down though. let’s be realistic: without a core team working on feature parity with Node.js the project is effectively dead.

It is now called ”Done".

Honestly it saddens me a little, I did a gamble and chose deno over bun, anthropic acquiring bun made me feel I made the right choice, I was hiped for the deno3 release thinking they'll soon support typescript 7 and http3 and a bunch of runtime upgrades, just to get bombarded with these news, now I'm considering just going back to nodejs, anthropic's bun is still not a safe bet yet and nodejs 26 will soon be the next LTS.

I think Cloudflare didn't that Deno in combination with an Ai agent was imperceptible from a human maybe? While they can't do much against Ai agents, they could at least eliminate one of their main source of pain by buying it out and controlling it.

Am I crazy to think that?